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MIPS
11-15-2017, 08:53 PM
There was this Sony TV-115 all-transistor B/W set sitting under a table behind where I work. I guess someone was dumpster diving at the antique store again.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7758.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7758.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7757.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7757.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7759.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7759.jpg

While it does give a good picture though the VHF tuning knob is missing, plus the contrast and brightness have to be almost maxed to give a bright picture.
Aside from the handle and DC jack it doesn't seem all that interesting, except that apparently someone (who owned another TV-115) mailed Apple back in the 70's about how to make one work with their computer and one of Apple's tech support guys got back with this response:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zxI22dsOsAo/TJrGDnw9ArI/AAAAAAAAA1M/6dj_Lb8TkAY/s1600/datanetics_letter.jpg

Never heard of this Steven guy before. :smoke:

MadMan
11-15-2017, 09:38 PM
Steven? Sounds like a really nice guy and really upstanding businessman.

I wonder if that signature is a rubber stamp or not.

Sandy G
11-16-2017, 07:10 AM
Hard to remember now that there actually WAS a Human-Type Being at the very back of all the PC jargon..

Celt
11-16-2017, 11:30 AM
Nice. I think those scratches on the screen will polish out with a scratch remover compound. :)

DavGoodlin
11-16-2017, 11:54 AM
Sony had a way with that little stuff! A fine example you have there!

centralradio
11-16-2017, 11:55 PM
Nice set ,pix looks great and nice letter from late Mr Jobs.Mr Jobs sig looks real to me but a writing forensics expert could help on that. I might have a similar set here or I might mistakenly thinking of the Panasonic I have in the shed.

dieseljeep
11-17-2017, 09:21 PM
There was this Sony TV-115 all-transistor B/W set sitting under a table behind where I work. I guess someone was dumpster diving at the antique store again.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7758.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7758.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7757.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7757.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7759.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/New%20Bucket/CGS_7759.jpg

While it does give a good picture though the VHF tuning knob is missing, plus the contrast and brightness have to be almost maxed to give a bright picture.
Aside from the handle and DC jack it doesn't seem all that interesting, except that apparently someone (who owned another TV-115) mailed Apple back in the 70's about how to make one work with their computer and one of Apple's tech support guys got back with this response:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zxI22dsOsAo/TJrGDnw9ArI/AAAAAAAAA1M/6dj_Lb8TkAY/s1600/datanetics_letter.jpg

Never heard of this Steven guy before. :smoke:
If you remove the dark screen, you'll probably have all the brightness you'll need.

mr_fixer
11-18-2017, 10:38 AM
I'm thinking this set and letter ought to be taken to a Antiques Roadshow event. A early piece of Apple history has got to be worth some bucks.

Chip Chester
11-18-2017, 01:29 PM
I didn't see where the letter came with the set, or even is in the OPs possession...
Chip

mr_fixer
11-18-2017, 02:43 PM
I didn't see where the letter came with the set, or even is in the OPs possession...
Chip

Sorry i thought Electric City Radio supply was where Mips works and that it is the addressee of the apple letter. I inferred that this set and letter was something leftover/forgotten from mips workplace.

MIPS
11-18-2017, 08:30 PM
No, I do not have that letter. Again:

apparently someone (who owned another TV-115)

It's the second image hit when you google the set, followed by...
http://www.magazine-advertisements.com/uploads/2/1/8/4/21844100/sony-black-white-tv-115-1.jpg

...and a bunch of trash from Terapeak.

mr_fixer
11-18-2017, 10:25 PM
Well, my error exposed. no harm no foul. Nonetheless nice tv set which someone else wished to use with a early Apple computer. Still a nice tv.

Dude111
11-28-2017, 05:40 AM
Quite nice!!!!!!!