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Old 01-17-2006, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete Deksnis
A guy responded to my site recently and mentioned a recollection of a 2-in. Trinitron:

"Sony once made a mini portable TV with the worlds' smallest Trinitron
color CRT. 2 inches! The entire TV would fit in a shoebox. The screen
was on the end. A green bar on the screen pointed to the channel
numbers printed beneath the screen. The TV ran on 6 or 8 C batteries or
the included AC adapter. It was Hi-Tech for 1980!"

Can anyone back up his story?
Actually I think it was a 1.5" screen and came with a clip on magnifier. It was about 4" wide, 2" tall and 8-9" deep. It was truly portable and could easily be brought to a football game to see the replays.

The company I was working for back then (80-81?) used some with the surveillance equipment we were designing. A pretty cool little TV.
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