Portable color sets from the sixties

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Originally posted by Eric H
I had one of those back in the late 70's. I got it from a TV repairman friend of mine.

It had a bad heater on one of the guns but I was able to get it working by whacking the neck of the CRT with a screwdriver handle.

I had to do that a few times but it finally seemed to take and worked for quite a while before I sold it at a garage sale.

It must have been an early one because I remember it had a really coarse dot pitch and really lousy color!

Later I had a 71 or 72 RCA XL-100 19" portable which I seem to recall was one of the first sets to use a slot matrix 110 deg CRT?
It was a solid state modular set and had great color.

Eric

correction edit
the first was probably the ctc74.
they were modular and folded down like a truck tailgate for service.
i remember that rca .
it was not an inline but looked like one.
110 degree small neck delta gun.
i think the first inline slotmask was in the ctc 88 (the chassis reminds you of a basket)