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I like the spring 74 issue the BEST. That talk by adler....It makes me almost wish I was "in it back then"..when we STILL had a robust electronics industry here !! But..since I was just SIX years old...that was not possible...
He REALLY was optomistic...for a "flat panel by 1983." he was not the ONLY one--radio-electronics predicted it too.
Those darn things did not REALLY "take off" till about TWENTY years later....2003. Maybe a year or two before--but a 42 inch plasma was STILL about $4k in the fall of 03...and not even full HD. And there were still a LOT of CRT sets out then. and RPTV sets--both CRT and "New technology sets"--ALL using a xenon-mercury lamp for the light source... (LCD, DLP, DILA, LCOS)...were the RAGE during that time.. Those bulbs were VERY expensive back then. Not now... So in 2003...the flat panel was the "new kid on the block"..trying to "go big time." But the CRT STILL ruled and so did the NT sets..
But the "writing was on the wall"...
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