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I think in addition to the Safari, there was a Motorola Astronaut, which was probably the first "big screen" solid state TV, in the earlyb60's.
Both Philco and Motorola made TVs, and Philco still had an active semiconductor division. Which I think got killed off in the 60's.
Speaking of which, I missed the ETF this year, but I'm curious - did the Predicata really kill Philco off? (I suspect it was a few factors, including the above-mentioned semiconductor division, which IIRC, invested heavily into surface barrier types, right before the mesa and planar types were developed by others)
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