[QuadList] Early Quad Color--"Saving Cyd Charisse" gets asecondlook at AMIA's The Reel Thing, this Saturday.

[David C. Crosthwait]

While on an NBC Sports remote at Mile High Stadium in Denver some  
years ago, the TD told me a horrible story of them (he and the crew)  
being ordered to toss the TK 41's into the dumpster when the new  
cameras were installed. He said it really broke his heart and that he  
wanted to save the cameras, but he did as he was ordered to do.

All I remember seeing at the stadium then was some yoke assemblies for  
the 41. The last time I was there was about 1984.

David






Quoting Dale Lamm <dlamm1 at neo.rr.com>:

> Around 1975, an engineering manager from the Cleveland NBC O&O took pity on
> us poor UHF folk from a small city on the edge of the market. He arranged
> for a few thousand pounds of TK-41 stuff (cameras, Conrac monitors, early
> RCA monitors, TO-1 WFMs, etc) to be given to us. All we had to do was drive
> a truck to Fairview NJ and load it up. Our prod manager and I drove a
> straight truck to the NBC garage. We filled the truck, but hardly made a
> dent in NBC's pile of discarded equipment, so we contracted a mover. When I
> fired up the first TK-41C back home (with International Nuclear pre-amps!)
> it was still registered and looked pretty darn good. We were in hog heaven,
> with TK-41's and other gear coming out our ears. A pair of them ended up at
> a nearby state university branch.
>
> So, thanks to the skill of the NBC video and maintenance guys, we were able
> to look as good as New York City for a few years until we retired the
> cameras for the second time in their lives.
>
> Somewhere I read that the Orthicon's halo was due to a surplus of electrons
> coming off the target due to a bright part of the scene and being drawn to
> surrounding areas. No need for an enhancer as with vidicons or plumbicons.
> It's been a while since I played with an RCA 5820. Nice camera tube site at:
> http://members.chello.nl/h.dijkstra19/page4.html
>
> That's enough camera stuff for now.
>
>
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