Massive thank you to Michael Davies ... You superstar!! What an epic TV!!

IIRC if you have something with an RF output (eg VHS deck) and an RF cable (and have the cable reasonably near the aerial) - you may be able to get this to tune into it.

Oh, the days of analog TV. I almost expected that you would make your own old-time TV station and broadcast to it. Now that would be cool. What an amazing little TV.

What a very cool little thing! 👍😊

In 1980 Sir Clive Sinclair showed me the tube from his TV at his house and explained how it worked. The video is essentially correct - the line and frame scan are deflected electrostatically (as in a oscilloscope CRT) and then the beam bent around to strike the phosphor anode. One advantage of this according to Sir Clive was with the screen at the rear of the tube, it could be fitted with a large heat sink, and the power increased significantly, perhaps sufficient for projection. A draw back was the display was monochrome, so the niche only existed for a short time until LED/LCD based pocket colour TV's emerged in the 90's. Minor notes: - it's a cathode not an emitter - the tube is a thermionic valve not a transistor. Surface mount only became a thing in the mid 1980's. The first device I owned with much of it was a Technophone Mk1 in March 1986, by which time market penetration was about 10% and Surface Mount magazine was published (now SMT?)

I would have loved one of those back in the day. ❤☘️

The CRT is very neat. Looks like a lot of tech derived from VFD manufacturing was used to make it. I wouldn't be surprised if IEEE or norikake actually made the tube.

Once had 12 hairy aircraft techs trying to watch a football match in the back of a bus with one of these LOL

Wow - what a gorgeous CRT :) kinda disappointed you didn't get a picture on it though. No analogue broadcasts are going, but any old videogame, or ... perhaps ... an old ZX Spectrum or ZX81 ought to be able to give you an RF signal you could shove into it

Awesome little TV, I'd not actually seen one before. Sir Clive was a genius

Amazing bit of technology there, I wonder what other 80s products could have been possible with that crt and a speccy bolted onto it

Great piece of Engineering - RIP Sir Clive Early use of barcode too I notice.

The reason they used to use outside posative is they used the plug to disconnect the posative of the battery, very common on old equipment.

Small nit: surface mount tech existed at that time (it's as old as transistors), it just wasn't used in typical consumer electronics production because special equipment was required and the components were hard to source. The mainstream transition to SMT began in the early 90s as the demand for higher density rose, and higher frequencies made PTH less attractive due to inductance.

I love it!!!😍😍😍📺

Requires the battery found in the film pack for a SX70 instamatic.

THE BEST!!

Very cool. I've got a casio one (LCD). Anyone know if there is a DVB to analogue converter/short range transmitter so could see these things work again?

Did you mean to write "TV" with the case screws when you were opening it?

It came with two batteries, no way did they last 15 hours, I took mine to school, it was dead before school ended. 5 hours max.

Even though TV stations no longer transmit analog, you could use an ESP32 to transmit to it and get a usable picture: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibmZhc6hzN26e40.html Or figure out where on the PCB to feed it a composite signal.

Aaargh! Taps the pristine 40 year-old CRT with a chrome vanadium screwdriver bit, then threatens to do it again any second!

Surface mount technology was invented in the 60s.

Actually 6V is required not 5V.