Amazing SINGER MICRO TV! 1960's All Transistor TV, and SONY Micro, SHARP Portable Televisions
121221 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. The Rare SINGER All-TRANSISTOR TELEVISION Model TV6: SINGER Corporation was a global leader in high tech electronics in the 1960's, including calculators, computers, navigation systems, defense equipment, consumer products and more. This is a look at the SINGER TV6 and TV6U "tiny televisions" and some of SINGER's competitors, such as the SONY Micro and SHARP TRP 601. A brief presentation compiled to help preserve some of this early SINGER history. Hope you enjoy.
Compiled by the Computer History Archives Project (CHAP), dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage computing technologies.
Editing: Victor Kaminsky
Narration: James Izzo
Additional Company Information:
SINGER had acquired numerous electronics companies over the years such as FRIDEN (makers of calculators, computer systems and the historically familiar "Flexowriter" machine), LINK, and others. SINGER Business Machines itself was acquired by ICL of the UK in 1976. ICL, or International Computers Ltd, was a large British Company offering computer hardware, software and services. It operated under name of ICL from 1968 to 2002 when it changed the name to Fujitsu Services Ltd, as a member of the Fujitsu group. The Company’s most successful product line was the mainframe computer series, ICL Series 2900.
Other SINGER acquisitions included:
General Precision Equipment (GPE) (Librascope computers)
Panoramic Electronics (spectrum analyzers, microwave instrumentation)
Sensitive Research Corp. (high-accuracy electrical measuring instrumentation)
Empire Devices, Inc., (electrical and electronic test and measuring equipment, microwave devices) Gertsch (testing equipment (RF etc.))
EMC Instruments (advanced radio frequency interference test equipment)
This SINGER related book looks interesting also (but hard to find) : "Unraveling The Threads: The Life, Death and Resurrection of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, America's First Multi-National Corporation", Paperback – May 16, 2016
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