In Vector Mode, the VM700T becomes a digital vectorscope with an electronic graticule.The "Color Bar Search" feature makes it easy to quickly display a line containing a color bar test signal.
It came out in 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson had broken baseball's color bar, and two years after Truman had ordered the desegregation of the armed forces.
At a time when most Britons wanted to impose a color bar on immigration, the one Tory MP who suggested such a restriction in Parliament was humiliated and reduced to tears at a party meeting.