12 Nov 2003, 08:48, Joe Nicholson (1:202/1324), wrote to Tom Walker:

Hi Joe.

 JN>  I have been trying to visulize the CBS system.  As I
 JN>  see it, the flying spot wheel would have to be twice
 JN>  the size of the picture tube.  Sounds like a humungous
 JN>  flywheel in the living room of every home, waiting to
 JN>  tear loose and go ripping through everything/everyone
 JN>  like a giant buzz saw.  

 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.

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

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

The really strange ones were the ones with the 'large screen'.  A 15",
50 pound hunk of magnifying glass bolted in front of a 9" picture
tube.  The only way it could be viewed was to be dead in front of the TV,
and the whole family always huddled tight in that one spot.  Naturally I
picked a friend with plenty of sisters when I wanted to watch TV.   :-))

Today such a magnifying glass would probably cost twice the price of the TV
set itself.


     Good luck...  M.

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