Vintage owners manual

[Eric H]

Not sure what year this is but thought someone might need it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-50s-RCA-...QQcmdZViewItem

[Carmine]

Somebody got it, whether they need it, or it's just some pop art for them remains to be seen.

I will say this... I wasn't surprised to see it was only 8 pages, and you can figure five of those (at best) probably contained relevant information, a lot of it probably in picture form. I've seen early color TV owners manuals, and for all the hype around color TV, those owners manuals are "light reading".

Suppose this is more of a 50-60s thing though. I recently came across a box of owner's manuals for the Chrysler Turbine car that was semi-released to the public in 1964. The whole manual was 20 pages at best, with about two pages of turbine-specific information! The other 18 was standard-era fare about how to turn on the headlights, how to put the key in the ignition, etc.!

Compare that to today's manuals which are 400 pages of safety warnings for a Chinese toaster.

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Compare that to today's manuals which are 400 pages of safety warnings for a Chinese toaster.

And written in Chinese and translated by a computer

"Box the replace with warning controls only of how. Perform a-b during lightbulb. Observe all housing of containment, then lift the out handle, perching clutchly."

.......And that makes more sense than some of the real ones I've tried to read!

Charles

[grimer]

Yup...I bought it,turns out to be for a ctc10-11,I have a ctc 10.The contents
are very basic,how to adjust the vertical and horizontal controls,and fine tuning,
and mostly adjusting the color and tint controls.
The manual also states: "THE COLOR CONTROLS NEED NOT BE DISTURBED
DURING A BLACK AND WHITE BROADCAST"..
grimer

[Eric H]

Does it have the "Diathermy" interference information?

Diathermy must have been a big deal back then because all the owners manuals I have from the 40's thru the 60's deal with it.

[grimer]

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