zenith Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/zenith/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:38:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png zenith Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/zenith/ 32 32 146320098 The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions, lunar science-fiction, and dreams of a future there… http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/20/the-moon-tube-1969-televisions-lunar-science-fiction-and-dreams-of-the-future/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:35:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3446 What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set? RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were [more...]

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]]> 3446 The Crystal Ball: CRT ‘Innovation’ Flops http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/#respond Sat, 22 Sep 2018 14:00:36 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1512 Telephone Television The “Space Phone” built into some Zenith System 3 TVs from the 1970s to the 1990s unfortunately didn’t let you call space, but it did let grandma call her grandkids without having to [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/feed/ 0 1512 The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:00:38 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1498 One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more...]

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