tom jennings on Nostr: Available: Sinclair MTV1 Micro Vision battery-portable CRT television. ...
Available: Sinclair MTV1 Micro Vision battery-portable CRT television.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV-1
When I was in Santa Fe NM 10 days or so ago, perusing a junk shop I came across an immaculate Sinclair Micro Vision MTV1 miniature battery-powered television, with a CRT display.
Many photos here: https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/temp/index.html
It is insanely complete -- everything but the cellophane wrapper. Both READ ME FIRST documents (sic). It's like it's untouched for 50 years except -- the CRT makes no light. The receiver makes audio -- of an empty band, because VHF/UHF TV broadcasts ended some years ago. But fiddling the tuning and band controls and the white-ish noise in the speaker sounds like a receiver working.
The original packing foam insert is still springy.
I paid $100 for it before I knew it didn't work... a gamble I lost. I'm hoping someone will want it bad enough to buy it from me. I have no use for it, I figured it would be madly interesting to vintage nerds....
It's got NiCd batteries in it, they are dry husks and I'm not popping the case open to look. But it runs on the AC power supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV-1
When I was in Santa Fe NM 10 days or so ago, perusing a junk shop I came across an immaculate Sinclair Micro Vision MTV1 miniature battery-powered television, with a CRT display.
Many photos here: https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/temp/index.html
It is insanely complete -- everything but the cellophane wrapper. Both READ ME FIRST documents (sic). It's like it's untouched for 50 years except -- the CRT makes no light. The receiver makes audio -- of an empty band, because VHF/UHF TV broadcasts ended some years ago. But fiddling the tuning and band controls and the white-ish noise in the speaker sounds like a receiver working.
The original packing foam insert is still springy.
I paid $100 for it before I knew it didn't work... a gamble I lost. I'm hoping someone will want it bad enough to buy it from me. I have no use for it, I figured it would be madly interesting to vintage nerds....
It's got NiCd batteries in it, they are dry husks and I'm not popping the case open to look. But it runs on the AC power supply.