If you were going to be an early adopter of television 75 years ago, it might be a fairly expensive proposition for you. This ad for the DeWald BT-100 appeared in the June 1948 issue of Radio News. The ad, for Warren Distributors, 3145 Washington St., Jamaica Plain, Mass., listed the set as selling for $372.10, which is the equivalent of over $4600 in 2023 dollars.

The set tuned 13 channels, meaning that it was all set to go for Channel 1, 44-50 MHz, even though that channel was soon to be abandoned in North America.