Notes on a brilliant failure

Roebke replies to the comment of Istvan Gorog on his article. His article told the story of one unheralded company and the physicists who worked on its color televisions, in their spare time, while building particle accelerators for both national defense and empirical pleasure. It was the story of the Chromatron, not RCA and the Trinitron. Gorog was not just an alumnus of the TV industry. He was a director at RCA. So he objected when, in Roebke's denouement, he mentioned that the Trinitron was the best-selling television when most of them were growing up. In the 1990s, when he was growing up, it was.