I'm writing this on the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the color TV. A radio report noting the occasion recalled that the first RCA sets cost $1000 (nearly as much as a new car in 1954) and that buying one of the big mahogany wooden-cased CT-100s was a truly momentous event, if you happened to be rich enough to afford one. I'm not quite old enough to remember the color TV's market debut. But as it took more than a decade for color TVs to reach the mainstream, I do remember the excitement as a kid in the 1960s of getting our first color set. What a big deal that was! And certainly, such a major investment deserved special care. When it broke, the TV repairman made house calls, coming to change tubes or even-gasp-bring the news of the need for a costly picture tube repair.
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