I could believe it's designed for a TV station. KHQ channel 6 in Spokane Washington had quite a few built in sets around the station, including in the control room where they had several. Monitoring the satellite feed from NBC, "network", a separate one for program, and another one for over the air monitoring in the control room. They also had several feeds from the VT players that had the commercials on them as well as some of the programs that were aired on 2" video tape, like "Don Kurshners Rock Concert" that aired late at night after Saturday Night Live aired. That is a really cool piece Shango! J.
That right there is a piece of history. I am so glad to have seen this documented. That is no run of the mill consumer TV. That TV was made for big dollar installations. "spare no expense" type of deals. To even see one, much less one that was NEW IN BOX... That's one of those things I thought I would never see.
You have got a very rare gem there, amazing that it works so well after being dormant for so long unused. I thought the Atari 2600 demo was cool too. Having that composite input on the front is rather useful and the whole thing looks to be of high build quality. Keep this one. Cheers!
MAN you got a LOT of PEckard Ding-Dongs! (Packard Bells) My Grandparent's TV was a console 23" B7W Packard Bell when I was growing up in Northern Minnesota & it had a individual lamp for each channel & it ran until about 1981 when the yoke fried & my Grandma gave it to me to play with. I wired in a yoke from an ancient 17" B7W & it actually worked! It had vert linearity issues, but it worked!
The front is finished, but the sides are "dull metal". Something I'd expect to see on a rack-mount switch unit (as well as the forced air) so it's meant to be built into the wall when the house is built (a rich person's house). I'd say it was an extremely expensive model nobody could afford so it sat on the shelves for 45 years. That AMPEX $30k VCR (VTR whatever)... I've never heard of that? I heard in the late 60s there was a 3" Quad (Quadrature 90 degree) video tape unit that was almost room-sized for TV stations, needed a complete setup every time it was turned on so they would always have a need for a tech... but I had never heard of that
If you watch some television shows and movies from that era where scenes have executive office scenes you will see examples of this TV. Incredible find...a true time capsule, I would love to know the story of why it was "left behind" and never sold back during its time....
The closest I've seen to a TV like this were some 23" tube-type color RCA's that my elementary school had. They were commercial grade CTC39's and there was a panel on the rear of the set with all sorts of A/V inputs/outputs. The only things I remember being connected to them were Sony U-Matic videotape machines; and, in later years, standard VHS VCR's.
@@mecamaster He does mention it in other videos. There was an untouched Packard Bell distributor that shut down in the 70s he got to get many of the contents of.
Definitely an interesting find here, never would have guessed a tube set would have composite inputs. And what luck, nothing had to be done to it for it to work! Just some fiddling with the convergence and yolk and that would be a perfect TV set!
Wasn't a complete setup and convergence part of the standard installation for new color TV's back then? Still incredible that it starts and plays at all after that long.
1969 is a bit early for Cartrivision, although U-Matic came out that year. The rest of the formats back then were home unfriendly reel to reel. Remember that "home" video plugs weren't really standardized yet, so using the commercial BNC jacks was logical. Its likely this set was used for integration into cabinets that housed a VTR unit, not unlike the original Sony LV-1901 Betamax TV console. A professional video monitor would be tunerless, with no reference to any "Hi-Fi" system. A rare find!
Sams Photofact doesn't list the CC9000 under Packard Bell (Teledyne), but I found the 98C18 chassis (without the "A" suffix) in Set 1009. According to that, the right-hand pushbutton will be "Instant Color Purity" to manually engage its built-in degaussing coil by placing it in series with the 117VAC input to a bridge rectifier circuit charging a 200uF electrolytic capacitor, producing a decaying sinusoidal AC coil current whenever the degaussing circuit is manually engaged. Simple & effective.
Every now and then people get lucky on this given day you were lucky this isn't the first one I've seen you get new out of a box not bad for TV that's been sitting around for 50 years
I've also discovered that PL-259 (aka "UHF") jacks were also used on a lot of 60s-70s era pro & industrial video equipment, as well as the rectangular 8-pin bidirectional "Jones" connector, which some professional/industrial TV sets had that VTRs could connect to, giving the added benefit of the TV acting as a tuner for the VTR for off-air recording.
Wow a MIB late 1960's custom COLOR Monitor/Receiver! This set is more then worthy of a FULL restoration! With that forced air cooling it should last a VERY long time! The Ampex 1" "A" format VTR's had BNC video out, The VR-7300 was of the time period and was color capable. Could have also been used with something like the Sony AV-8600 or more likely the AV-5000 1/2" recorder with a PL-259 to BNC adaptor.
I am surprised it did as well as it did, the pop might have been a capacitor blowing, I think you might have done better to bring it slowly on a Variac. Very cool TV, odd built in and all, but very cool. Thanks
Earlier composite video was connected by BNC, in a way kind of better bacause you didn't get the video & audio connectors mixed up. The first generation gear used PL259, CB style connectors (Also early CCTV/security video)
Composite/BNC existed all the way back in the 60's? Damn. I guess that option remained too expensive for consumer tvs till like the early 90s or something. :P
I don't think even consumer video gear used RCA jacks for video until 1981 or so. I remember being shocked the first time I saw one. I've seen many early Beta and VHS machines that used BNCs, although or course this TV long predates those. While not a professional monitor, I expect it was an industrial model, designed for commercial installations.
That is an awesome find! So, I guess everything became misaligned from sitting for so long? I liked seeing inside a TV of that time without burnt wires, dust, etc.
That would have permitted the possibly-deteriorated aluminum oxide dielectric in its electrolytic capacitors to slowly re-form and prevented possible SEVERE damage to the power supply. Check its Automatic Degaussing circuits for damage. The audible "snap" may have been a part of the ADG control circuit failing due to abnormally high inrush current due to the virtual short-circuit current of the flash-reforming which the electrolytics underwent in that ill-advised hard-start after 45 idle years.
Bushwacker hmmm, now that you mention it, it seems odd that a high end tv of this era didn't have a remote. Zenith's Space Command came out in the 50s, so there was certainly precedent by the time this was built.
" This tv is awesome try doing this with a flat screen no such luck.." what, keep it NOS in the box for 45 years and expect a flat screen to still work? Yes, yes i do expect a flat screen to still work... its not exactly a hard thing to do.. and no paper caps that will need replacing!
shango: Reallllly appreciate all of your videos of unboxing, testing, and repairs. You and the 'nut' are the best in this how-to repair thing. He just has to upgrade his capture device, the sound is a little fuzzy. My question: What does 'commercial' mean? Institutional use - hospitals, hotels, schools, etc? I'd assume they're a little more heavy duty built, so easier for you to dial in best performance.
Try not to take us too seriously on these videos. Its not an EH Scott Quaranta after all. We don't apply power if damage to the equipment is 100% certain. This set has since been carefully returned to its original packaging and proper dry storage conditions. Note the carpet we placed under it during inspection.
That is neat! Nice old NOS TV. But one question, How are you playing TV signals without a digital converter box attached? Didn't they cut the analog tv signal in 2008? Are you not in the United States?
He does live on the United States. Low-power analog TV was and still is allowed to broadcast until summer 2021, although new analog LPTV license requests were denied after 2019.
Video tape playback? Hi-fi input and output? Video in and out? This must’ve been a *pricey* set back in the day! Clearly designed for some sort of professional studio where they needed a color monitor of some sort.
It would have been a MUCH better idea to temporarily remove (parallel-heater circuit) or disconnect the plate cap from (series heater circuit) the Horizontal Output tube and conduct its initial power-up very slowly with a fused and metered Variac starting at about 20% of full line voltage increasing in increments of 5% per 15 minutes, then shut down and, after a final 15 minutes at 100% line voltage, reconnect the Horizontal Output tube to enable the sweep.
I'll bet that pop was an electrolytic. Probably needs a recap to ensure a perfect picture and sound plus IF alignment. I am very surprised it worked. Very nice find though.
I could believe it's designed for a TV station. KHQ channel 6 in Spokane Washington had quite a few built in sets around the station, including in the control room where they had several. Monitoring the satellite feed from NBC, "network", a separate one for program, and another one for over the air monitoring in the control room. They also had several feeds from the VT players that had the commercials on them as well as some of the programs that were aired on 2" video tape, like "Don Kurshners Rock Concert" that aired late at night after Saturday Night Live aired.
That is a really cool piece Shango!
J.
That right there is a piece of history. I am so glad to have seen this documented.
That is no run of the mill consumer TV. That TV was made for big dollar installations. "spare no expense" type of deals. To even see one, much less one that was NEW IN BOX... That's one of those things I thought I would never see.
@0:33 "Handle with pride," from an era when that could largely still be taken seriously, and meant something.
Someone would have proud to own this set back in the day
You have got a very rare gem there, amazing that it works so well after being dormant for so long unused. I thought the Atari 2600 demo was cool too. Having that composite input on the front is rather useful and the whole thing looks to be of high build quality. Keep this one. Cheers!
MAN you got a LOT of PEckard Ding-Dongs! (Packard Bells) My Grandparent's TV was a console 23" B7W Packard Bell when I was growing up in Northern Minnesota & it had a individual lamp for each channel & it ran until about 1981 when the yoke fried & my Grandma gave it to me to play with. I wired in a yoke from an ancient 17" B7W & it actually worked! It had vert linearity issues, but it worked!
The front is finished, but the sides are "dull metal". Something I'd expect to see on a rack-mount switch unit (as well as the forced air) so it's meant to be built into the wall when the house is built (a rich person's house). I'd say it was an extremely expensive model nobody could afford so it sat on the shelves for 45 years. That AMPEX $30k VCR (VTR whatever)... I've never heard of that? I heard in the late 60s there was a 3" Quad (Quadrature 90 degree) video tape unit that was almost room-sized for TV stations, needed a complete setup every time it was turned on so they would always have a need for a tech... but I had never heard of that
@6:26 after turning on the power, there is a pop noise. I suspect a capacitor?
If you watch some television shows and movies from that era where scenes have executive office scenes you will see examples of this TV. Incredible find...a true time capsule, I would love to know the story of why it was "left behind" and never sold back during its time....
My guess it was for tv stations the VTR is a good clue, who had even heard of video tape recorders back then let alone could afford one.
The closest I've seen to a TV like this were some 23" tube-type color RCA's that my elementary school had. They were commercial grade CTC39's and there was a panel on the rear of the set with all sorts of A/V inputs/outputs. The only things I remember being connected to them were Sony U-Matic videotape machines; and, in later years, standard VHS VCR's.
That reminds me of the kind of thing you’d see in like the office of a highly powerful CEO or something.
Very cool seeing this old TV looking like it just came from the factory!
"Where do you find these NOS units?", he asked never expecting a reply.
And you'll never get one it seams!
@@mecamaster He does mention it in other videos. There was an untouched Packard Bell distributor that shut down in the 70s he got to get many of the contents of.
Definitely an interesting find here, never would have guessed a tube set would have composite inputs. And what luck, nothing had to be done to it for it to work! Just some fiddling with the convergence and yolk and that would be a perfect TV set!
>yolk
Very unique for its time. Love seeing Atari Asteroids on an old tube set! Nice touch!
Exciting. How on earth do you find these treasures. Never opened in decades, pristine. Thanks for all you do and share!
I love the colors inside, the blue, green, and red are so nice, now everything is black and gray
Wasn't a complete setup and convergence part of the standard installation for new color TV's back then? Still incredible that it starts and plays at all after that long.
Like opening a time capsule.
Looks like this TV was born at the same time as I was, and managed to remain a virgin even longer than I did!
;-)
Where did you find that NIB classic ?!
Beautiful inside, what a pleasure to see everything brand new and dust free.
Nice neon lit dial indicators.
this brinks back memories from childhhod. We had one which also worked as a heater.
OMG
Seeing that TV showing Atari 2600 Asteroids was priceless
1969 is a bit early for Cartrivision, although U-Matic came out that year. The rest of the formats back then were home unfriendly reel to reel. Remember that "home" video plugs weren't really standardized yet, so using the commercial BNC jacks was logical. Its likely this set was used for integration into cabinets that housed a VTR unit, not unlike the original Sony LV-1901 Betamax TV console. A professional video monitor would be tunerless, with no reference to any "Hi-Fi" system. A rare find!
Sams Photofact doesn't list the CC9000 under Packard Bell (Teledyne), but I found the 98C18 chassis (without the "A" suffix) in Set 1009. According to that, the right-hand pushbutton will be "Instant Color Purity" to manually engage its built-in degaussing coil by placing it in series with the 117VAC input to a bridge rectifier circuit charging a 200uF electrolytic capacitor, producing a decaying sinusoidal AC coil current whenever the degaussing circuit is manually engaged. Simple & effective.
Handle with Pride. Love that text.
Packard bell made T.V. Sets? I thought that they just made computers I guess you learn something new every day!!!
I saw a snippet of Rebecca Black's "Friday", as well as video clips from Pamperchu and Retrochad.
I KNEW I wasn't the only one.
Retrochad needs to come back.
I enjoy all the vintage sets I remember Motorola TV's RCA Zenith
Fantastic! A tv with fans! Very nice and i love it!
My Panasonic Plasma from 2008 has fans!
Perhaps this was used in schools, TV studios, colleges, medical field, or something that required direct input connections.
Every now and then people get lucky on this given day you were lucky this isn't the first one I've seen you get new out of a box not bad for TV that's been sitting around for 50 years
Don't forget to send in the warranty card!
I've also discovered that PL-259 (aka "UHF") jacks were also used on a lot of 60s-70s era pro & industrial video equipment, as well as the rectangular 8-pin bidirectional "Jones" connector, which some professional/industrial TV sets had that VTRs could connect to, giving the added benefit of the TV acting as a tuner for the VTR for off-air recording.
Shango066 will there be a part II to this video Packard Bell CC9000 Commercial Tube Television?
It looks like a consumer CRT. It’s a lot less like a PVM.
Wow a MIB late 1960's custom COLOR Monitor/Receiver! This set is more then worthy of a FULL restoration! With that forced air cooling it should last a VERY long time!
The Ampex 1" "A" format VTR's had BNC video out, The VR-7300 was of the time period and was color capable.
Could have also been used with something like the Sony AV-8600 or more likely the AV-5000 1/2" recorder with a PL-259 to BNC adaptor.
America grew up listening to us....it still does.
Another video that's not been finished or has a part 2 to it.
Jeez I actually remember playing Atari 2600 on a old ass tube tv back in 1979. :) wow talk about a flashback.
I am surprised it did as well as it did, the pop might have been a capacitor blowing, I think you might have done better to bring it slowly on a Variac.
Very cool TV, odd built in and all, but very cool.
Thanks
Earlier composite video was connected by BNC, in a way kind of better bacause you didn't get the video & audio connectors mixed up.
The first generation gear used PL259, CB style connectors (Also early CCTV/security video)
Hmm, my Sony CRT Projector uses BNC. These units are nice! Except that they weigh a ton. I picked it up for $20 at my local thrift.
Why was it never opened in all those years?
Composit on a 45 yo set ? ... I can barely imagine how much this costed
"MINT IN THE BOX" makes this one a SPATSBEAR special.
I miss old tv tuning the picture
Looks like a in the wall studio type set.
always wondered since I started watching your videos....how the hell do you dig up new in box tv sets? lol
Zundfolge1432 I'd assume somebody just found it in the back of a warehouse somewhere and didn't want to deal with it, so sold it or gave it away.
Leaves us hanging in the air about it.
Composite/BNC existed all the way back in the 60's? Damn. I guess that option remained too expensive for consumer tvs till like the early 90s or something. :P
I don't think even consumer video gear used RCA jacks for video until 1981 or so. I remember being shocked the first time I saw one. I've seen many early Beta and VHS machines that used BNCs, although or course this TV long predates those. While not a professional monitor, I expect it was an industrial model, designed for commercial installations.
That is an awesome find! So, I guess everything became misaligned from sitting for so long? I liked seeing inside a TV of that time without burnt wires, dust, etc.
how did it pick up a signal after the analogue signals where cut years ago?
Made for wall installation in offices or schools, primarily. Definitely not for use in TV stations who wouldn't have wanted Packard Bell junk.
What a treat. Can hardly believe it.
Really cool sir! If you ever think about selling it please let me know I've been looking for something like that
WOW they used bnc for video connector back them? Thats awsome! I with the TVs from today had bnc connectors and not those crappy rca connectors.
That would have permitted the possibly-deteriorated aluminum oxide dielectric in its electrolytic capacitors to slowly re-form and prevented possible SEVERE damage to the power supply. Check its Automatic Degaussing circuits for damage. The audible "snap" may have been a part of the ADG control circuit failing due to abnormally high inrush current due to the virtual short-circuit current of the flash-reforming which the electrolytics underwent in that ill-advised hard-start after 45 idle years.
That baby was the bees knees back in the days when you had to hate something bad enough to get up and walk across the room to change the channel....
Bushwacker hmmm, now that you mention it, it seems odd that a high end tv of this era didn't have a remote. Zenith's Space Command came out in the 50s, so there was certainly precedent by the time this was built.
Consolette?.. Consolation Prize? …
Cool! Perhaps this set was meant to be wall mounted . . . ?
Very unique set there.
Not bad for 45 Years... This tv is awesome try doing this with a flat screen no such luck... 👍
" This tv is awesome try doing this with a flat screen no such luck.." what, keep it NOS in the box for 45 years and expect a flat screen to still work? Yes, yes i do expect a flat screen to still work... its not exactly a hard thing to do.. and no paper caps that will need replacing!
Where on earth are you find these things? Unused for so long, wow,
shango: Reallllly appreciate all of your videos of unboxing, testing, and repairs. You and the 'nut' are the best in this how-to repair thing. He just has to upgrade his capture device, the sound is a little fuzzy. My question: What does 'commercial' mean? Institutional use - hospitals, hotels, schools, etc? I'd assume they're a little more heavy duty built, so easier for you to dial in best performance.
That's a beautiful set but like the Zeniths and some Sylvanias it has that glue that needs to be redone around the outer glass.
Amazing, here in the uk Packard bell only ever made computers
That is cool
Where did you find it?
Who's broadcasting an analog signal in 2012?
Surprisingly there is still a station that is in analog but my tv barely can get a connection on it
They should have all been gone by March, I wonder how they're still on.
+guyonearth only one channel
He could be using a converter.
Someone I want to continue to do so.
Where were you getting "Broadcast" signals? Or what year was this created, I did not know there were any Analog channels being broadcast anymore.
Absolutely beautiful !!
Try not to take us too seriously on these videos. Its not an EH Scott Quaranta after all. We don't apply power if damage to the equipment is 100% certain. This set has since been carefully returned to its original packaging and proper dry storage conditions. Note the carpet we placed under it during inspection.
That is neat! Nice old NOS TV. But one question, How are you playing TV signals without a digital converter box attached? Didn't they cut the analog tv signal in 2008? Are you not in the United States?
He does live on the United States. Low-power analog TV was and still is allowed to broadcast until summer 2021, although new analog LPTV license requests were denied after 2019.
Video tape playback? Hi-fi input and output? Video in and out? This must’ve been a *pricey* set back in the day! Clearly designed for some sort of professional studio where they needed a color monitor of some sort.
how much,if anything,did the thing cost?
retrochad at 9:20 ?
ok. how you get it on the tv?
Just Love the unboxing. what a find.
What CRT is in this set?
what´s wrong with the convergence?
Do you know the muffin fan?
I find it a bit scary when I see this and other metal-cased TVs using 2-prong AC plugs.
So what do you pay for something like that ? $300 ?
I think if the conversions would be better if the Yoke was moved and the pop could be moisture.
The yoke was messed up.
The pop was it's cherry popping.
This is the home theater for the mayor of Diamond City.
Amazing and excellent video.
i know where the video is from at 8:33. wasn't expecting that. guess you used video in on the front for that? 9:24 is another video you did i guess.
Now that’s a treasure
355 watts... no wonder nuclear reactors were justified back then
Craig Nehring
They are even more justified today.
ABC studio monitor. Unreal .someone lost part of the stash
It would have been a MUCH better idea to temporarily remove (parallel-heater circuit) or disconnect the plate cap from (series heater circuit) the Horizontal Output tube and conduct its initial power-up very slowly with a fused and metered Variac starting at about 20% of full line voltage increasing in increments of 5% per 15 minutes, then shut down and, after a final 15 minutes at 100% line voltage, reconnect the Horizontal Output tube to enable the sweep.
Capacitor blew up....:)
I skipped the video in the wrong place and caught you saying "it's like a 69,68,69...100% Virgin" 😆😆😆
How does those vintage TV's remain in mint condition?
I'll bet that pop was an electrolytic. Probably needs a recap to ensure a perfect picture and sound plus IF alignment. I am very surprised it worked. Very nice find though.
lol, why shouldnt it work ^^ these things are like tanks. Some spend years outside or in wet abandoned buildings and work fine.
Capacitors go bad just from sitting around for decades, whether the equipment was ever powered up or not.
More Atari demos on these old sets!
9:03 - Why you afraid to stop on that perfectly clear channel, yet you stop on that poor reception one? 'Sup with that?