Spectrac Color Converter

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Spectrac Color Converter

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The Spectrac color converter was developed in Canada by Frederick Topping. It used a rotating belt with two color filters in front of a black and white set to produce color images.

Popular Science, December 1971

1971 Paper on Spectrac (courtesy of Mike Sauer)

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