-=> Quoting Matt Mc_carthy to Joe Nicholson <=-

 JN>  I wrote a term paper in college on the CBS vs RCA-FCC
 JN>  lawsuit, but never saw a picture of the CBS system.

 MM> I can't believe you're that young!  :-)

 I wrote the term paper in 1956.  I was back at the same
 college teaching communications-engineering part-time
 1964-1974.  One of my former instructors remarked, "You
 sure know how to make someone feel old."    He had
 been the faculty advisor to the student council at the
 time I held two student body offices.


 MM> A friend's family had one of those when I was a kid, the only
 MM> color TV in the neighborhood!  The wheel WAS twice the diameter
 MM> of the tube, and sat on the upper right of the TV.  There were
 MM> three sets of filters (maybe four?), and the wheel actually
 MM> turned pretty slow for what it had to accomplish.

 I didn't realize public broadcasts were made using the CBS
 system, before the FCC (and courts) ruled for NTSC and RCA.
 I have read about some show-window TV demos ca. 1936, but
 everything ground to a halt for WW II.

 So for a tiny 7" or 9" TV, the wheel was 14" or 18".  No one
 in those days imagined 24" or 36" screens.

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