Ah, you guys have about 10/15 years on me... I remember the Motorola Quasar 'works in a drawer'. When they didnt work, they were hard to fix.. Zenith had the motto 'the quality goes in before the name goes on'. They really were pretty good. RCA had the best chassis, but the grounds always rattled loose on the corners of the "pcb's". I was a genius at fixing these with a soldering gun -customers loved me, much to the disdain of the shop's $39.95 bench fee... ROUND CRT's (kinescope) 'nuff said. Curtis Mathis was a rebadged RCA chassis in a nice, expensive wood box (I cant recall the RCA chassis #...'105'?) I really hated those 'combo' sets with stereo -->500lbs!! eight feet long and always in the basement w/fried flyback.. The worst TV's in North America were the 'packard-bell' ilk...that great tradition carried on in their pc's.. Admiral's were ok -as long as you didnt twiddle out the ferrite core thingy's... dog hair + vacuum tubes = fuzz w/glass bumps. dim bulbs..stinky tv..pops and snaps. crt 'brighteners' -sorry, but your pix toob is kaput, now..its just a BIG radio w/4 channels.. Globar resistor, or at least a shadow of where it WAS..
Ah yes, the blissful aroma of hot tubes, ozone and fried flybacks..those were the days.. I was sooo good that I retired after 10 months.. -kyle =:) -----Original Message----- From: Rich Nute [mailto:ri...@sdd.hp.com] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:45 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: Creepage dist. for more than 1000V ? Hi Terry: > I don't recall the Sony but do recall the Philco and that Zenith held out with the `hand wired' chassis. Now that you mention it... I do indeed recall that campaign. But, I did not -- then -- realize the context. Today, looking back, that campaign was really quite absurd! But it worked! Best regards, Rich ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
