Nicole ExpressMar 8
New blog post! A what-if scenario where we try to see how a home computer designer might've dealt with the field-sequential color television, had the Korean War not stopped that standards' rollout. Enjoy! https://nicole.express/2026/the-apple-that-wasnt.html
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I cant say much about computers of that era, but a lot more about video hardware

First of all i expect the shadow mask color CRT would have been developed in exactly the same way, this type of CRT can be run totally fine with color field sequential mode as well

Perhaps a different kind of CRT would had commercial success as well, where a single beam was rasterscanning and color selection done electrostatic or magnetic in the shadow mask

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Show threadLaberpferdMar 13

@nicole i have heard of experimental CRT that tried something like this with the 3,58 NTSC color carrier, but they were not anywhere practical

Another technology that might find more use would be projection TV

They would get a lot simpler replacing complicated color convergence circuits for three spatially displaced tubes with a scanning mirror for sequentially scanning them

Cheapies might run a single white tube through a color wheel, just like a DLP projector does it today
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