Sony TV8-301

The TV8-301 was a small black and white television made by Sony. It is notable for being the world's first non-projection type all-transistor television. It had an eight-inch screen. It was also portable, having a bay in the back for two 6 volt lead acid batteries. It was priced high as it was innovative in many ways, so, to the average consumer it was something of a luxury item and not a practical buy. Additionally, this television was rather prone to malfunction, which led to it being called Sony's “frail little baby". Released on the market in 1960, it was discontinued in 1962.[1]

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gollark: Okay, *how* is JS to be compiled to hardware without dropping features?
gollark: I mean, at some point you would just have to shove a JS interpreter on an actual CPU on board.
gollark: It's also practically impossible because JS is too dynamic (`eval`, `new Function`, `fn.toSource()`, the various `call`y methods, whatever is going on with empty slots in arrays, the ability to set properties on arrays too).
gollark: No, I mean it's logically impossible. JS is turing complete. Your PCB has finite memory space.

References

  1. Sony.net Archived August 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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