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Old 01-08-2012, 01:57 AM
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I was going to post "How did you FIND this?". Congratulations on receiving and saving a rare piece of TV history, probably the second most significant find since the RCA prototype from Harry Poster.
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Old 01-08-2012, 12:10 PM
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Phil, you are going to have to update the name of your site to Phil's Old Radios & Televisions.
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Old 01-08-2012, 02:20 PM
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how satisfying would it be to sit and watch a movie or a dvd of a television show from the early colors days on this!i love this and it is in good hands now.
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Old 01-08-2012, 02:47 PM
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Sugoi!

I'd start playing the lottery if I were Phil......
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:35 PM
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"Its ID plate says MI-40206-A, but the ETF website says it's a model TM-10, so that's what I'll call it."

RCA professional gear often had a type number (TM-10 in this case) and always an MI number that appeared in the catalog book/price sheet for ordering. Even the crossover networks used for the public address/music speakers at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair were specified by MI-number, which allowed me to track them down to determine the circuit used.
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:44 PM
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Phil, nice to see you got it, unlike the sarcastic harpoons above! Just kidding and seriously, glad that you got this monitor and especially glad that the kinescope is good. How many can there be out there?
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Old 01-08-2012, 08:46 PM
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Yeah, despite all the frivolous noise I make when something like this is scored, I can't think of it going to a better home than Phil...Or any of several more of you guys here that have the technical smarts to truly do it justice...I most certainly DON'T.
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Old 01-09-2012, 08:43 AM
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Great Score!

Great score Phil! Look at all the lytics in that thing; certainly an impressive find. Please post pictures for us to follow on its progress! I look forward to seeing some stills of the picture it produces once you’ve got it dialed in. Bill
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Old 01-09-2012, 08:57 AM
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My very first TV station job had one of these monitors in prop storage. I could see it, I just couldn't get it out of there, or I would have owned it. Too much stuff between it and the doorway. I did wind up with a TP-6 RCA projector, though.

Congratulations on this find. These things are really scarce now, eh?
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Old 01-09-2012, 11:17 AM
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A nice overview of this monitor (and lots of early RCA color broadcast gear) available in a 1954 issue of RCA "Broadcast News" here:

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...77-01-1954.pdf

The site has many other issues available for download, as well....
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Old 01-09-2012, 11:29 AM
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Great reading from this. Thanks.

Alot of the broadcast equipment I got to see was from this era. Unfortunately, its all gone now. Hmmph. It only sat there in storage for 35+ years!
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Old 01-09-2012, 11:37 AM
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I hereby nominate you for the most significant historical find of the decade !!!

And as others said, I don't see any chalky crap in the tube, so maybe you got a military-spec version with a good seal!

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The tubes that went into studio monitors were likely hand-selected from the best production tubes available. Is the tube in this monitor labeled as a standard 15GP22 or does it have a special number?
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Old 01-09-2012, 04:47 PM
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I hereby nominate you for the most significant historical find of the decade !!!

Ahem...

http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=251369

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Old 01-09-2012, 04:59 PM
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Very interesting set, what is that big circular plug near the RGB imput?
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