The videos where you review early television publications are some of my favorites…these are wonderful publications that really come to life with your commentary!…never knew that Emerson bought Dumont!!…fascinated by the Sylvania News May 1959 article on picture tube manufacturing…was able to hunt down a copy for my own archive!!!
Bob you found a great wealth of info. Nice find you never know when you will need it. Sadly as we get older not too many younger people into the love of old TVs.
Nice! There is nothing as clean as the original publications service info. It is nice having scans available over the Internet now, although it's never as clear as the original. I got Internet at home starting in 1996. When service information first appeared on the Internet, the scan quality was that of a Fax machine set for default resolution (180 dpi). Fortunately the scanning resolution has improved over the years.
Hi Bob, old publications like you got are great, lots of very interesting reading materials. The Sylvania service information you got really caught my attention since I was not aware that Sylvania included test equipment information in one of the volumes. We have a Sylvania 216 RF Generator (with a Philco property tag) that I have been looking for service information on and you just gave me a new lead on something to watch for.
Great find! I have the fourth (from L-R, top) Sylvania Halo Light 21" console model 876 that is shown in the Sylvania manual you show early on in the video. Trying to get around to finishing it up, as I keep having to work on other people's stuff!
Paraphernalia is so gratifying to get especially if it something you may need as a future reference. I got some stuff there for free that I actually could use myself and got a free Zenith AM/FM radio that no one messed with. So it had a crack on the top, no biggie. Still had to pay for many tubes needed for future projects. I passed on the Radio Electronics mags I saw because they are available to see on the web. Saw you for a second as I almost grabbed a record in a box sitting in the hot baking sun. You said it was a bunch of stuff of a buddy of yours.
LOL I didn't realize who I was talking to. The sun had baked my brains by that point. Yes, my friend bought the whole box. He also got a great deal on a couple RCA 45 players for $35.
I know it's probably quite a bit of work but, why don't you make notes and copies of interesting extracts of schematics and/or publications and put them in a sort of Rolodex-like holder where you can quickly look up info by type of fault or type/brand of equipment, Bob? That way you could quickly look up interesting or important info while working on something? Thanks for sharing your insights by the way :)
Sounds like a color set is in your future. Hope it's another roundy. It's funny,but I still remember going into a thrift store back in the 80's and they had an RCA color roundie playing a vhs tape of the 1960's Cambria "New Three Stooges" cartoons. Thrift stores were loaded with great items back then and NOBODY wanted them. In the 70's and 80's it was just old junk.
The videos where you review early television publications are some of my favorites…these are wonderful publications that really come to life with your commentary!…never knew that Emerson bought Dumont!!…fascinated by the Sylvania News May 1959 article on picture tube manufacturing…was able to hunt down a copy for my own archive!!!
Bob you found a great wealth of info. Nice find you never know when you will need it. Sadly as we get older not too many younger people into the love of old TVs.
Nice! There is nothing as clean as the original publications service info. It is nice having scans available over the Internet now, although it's never as clear as the original. I got Internet at home starting in 1996. When service information first appeared on the Internet, the scan quality was that of a Fax machine set for default resolution (180 dpi). Fortunately the scanning resolution has improved over the years.
Hi Bob, old publications like you got are great, lots of very interesting reading materials. The Sylvania service information you got really caught my attention since I was not aware that Sylvania included test equipment information in one of the volumes. We have a Sylvania 216 RF Generator (with a Philco property tag) that I have been looking for service information on and you just gave me a new lead on something to watch for.
Great find! I have the fourth (from L-R, top) Sylvania Halo Light 21" console model 876 that is shown in the Sylvania manual you show early on in the video. Trying to get around to finishing it up, as I keep having to work on other people's stuff!
Paraphernalia is so gratifying to get especially if it something you may need as a future reference. I got some stuff there
for free that I actually could use myself and got a free Zenith AM/FM radio that no one messed with. So it had a crack on
the top, no biggie. Still had to pay for many tubes needed for future projects. I passed on the Radio Electronics mags I saw because they are available to see on the web. Saw you for a second as I almost grabbed a record in a box sitting in the
hot baking sun. You said it was a bunch of stuff of a buddy of yours.
LOL I didn't realize who I was talking to. The sun had baked my brains by that point. Yes, my friend bought the whole box. He also got a great deal on a couple RCA 45 players for $35.
9:47...I just downloaded that issue...(!)
I know it's probably quite a bit of work but, why don't you make notes and copies of interesting extracts of schematics and/or publications and put them in a sort of Rolodex-like holder where you can quickly look up info by type of fault or type/brand of equipment, Bob?
That way you could quickly look up interesting or important info while working on something? Thanks for sharing your insights by the way :)
Maybe someday but now I don't have the time or space.
Sounds like a color set is in your future. Hope it's another roundy. It's funny,but I still remember going into a thrift store back in the 80's and they had an RCA color roundie playing a vhs tape of the 1960's Cambria "New Three Stooges" cartoons. Thrift stores were loaded with great items back then and NOBODY wanted them. In the 70's and 80's it was just old junk.
All will be revealed in three weeks during the Vintage Computer Fest Midwest
Don't. Convergence is horrible on old color sets.