[NJARC] Color TV's 50th anniversary

[Thomas Lee]

i thought the repair clinc for members only was scheduled for that day?

>David Sarnoff Library to Mark Color TV�s 50th Anniversary
>
>On March 25, 1954, RCA began marketing its first electronic color 
>television
>receiver, four years after its Princeton Laboratories demonstrated the
>monochrome-compatible color TV system on which the national standard is 
>still
>based.
>
>In honor of the golden anniversary of the ubiquitous technology that we've 
>all
>come to know and love�or hate�the David Sarnoff Library will be open to the
>public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 20.  Visitors and their
>children can watch some or all of the classic 1960 Peter Pan (running time:
>1:41) on RCA's first color set, the CT100.  They can also compare this 
>pioneer,
>with its wooden cabinet, 12�� display, 16 channels, and 10 control knobs to 
>the
>system on which they watch television today.
>
>"No more than 25 of this model are in working order today, making it far 
>rarer
>than a Stradivarius violin, and at least as challenging to keep in tune," 
>says
>the Library�s executive director Alex Magoun.  Magoun will also give his
>illustrated presentation, "The Bananas Were Blue, the Cashflow was Red: RCA 
>and
>the Innovation of Color TV" in the auditorium at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.  In
>addition, visitors can watch themselves on a 1948 RCA set via a 1951 TV 
>camera,
>test vacuum tubes in an RCA Tube Tester, and examine the rest of the 
>history of
>a remarkable man and the company he led.
>
>For more information, call (609) 734-2636.
>###
>
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