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Just think if Philco had come to market with their original design of this tube, code-named "Apple". If the washed out pix had been 21" big, imagine the failure in the market for Philco. If they had bet the ranch on this color system, it probably would have sunk them...earlier.
I for one appreciate the preservation of obsolete formats and the sometimes-brilliant-but-unworkable engineering in them. Think Col-R-Tel wheels, Bing Crosby videotape, Selectavision, Cartrivision, the original Sony Mavica digital camera (recalled like the Indextron),et al.
In this case, the cure was worse than the disease. Philco found a way to get rid of the limits of the shadow mask but created a whole new set of problems. Sony tried to ressurect it with some engineering advances, but the price point in the mass-market doomed them.
Failure is not always failure. Sometimes just something that did not work well. Ask the owner of a Tucker automobile.
I also take great delight in being in the exclusive club of owning a working Indextron. Only about 10 of us world-wide, most with Andy's help. And sorry to read that one of the club needs to sell his. Good luck! I know he will miss it.
Dave A
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