![]() If you are old enough to have watched “Star Trek” in 1966, more likely than not it was on a black-and-white set with a screen measuring no more than 21 inches diagonally. And to understand why this was such a big deal, you need to go back to “Star Trek.” Not the endless movies and sequels but the original TV series. ![]() In short, it was the first large, flat TV that could be mounted to a wall. With a screen that measured 42 inches diagonally, it was about as big as a TV could be in those days. It weighed a trifling 40 pounds (18 kilograms). ![]() At about 3 inches thick (75 millimeters), it was as thin as anyone then could hope for. Fujitsu’s flat-screen plasma television, introduced in 1997, was literally a promise out of science fiction.
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