Sony 5-303 Monitor!

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

I think it's a possible factory-authorized set. Sony was big into videotape in the 60s, and they did sell a line of Sony 19" and 21" B&W monitors with the "sony" videocorder socket. Those larger ones were actually Admiral-built! But they had Sony badges and a Sony model #. Probably due to import costs, I'd guess, and limited market, it was a better deal for Sony.

Charles

It looked like a professional job, maybe not by Sony but certainly not by some guy in his garage either.

There was a tag on the side from some company or shop on the side, I saw a date of 1983 but just assumed it was a repair tag.

[wa2ise]

Back around 1979 I used to work for some small company that modified Hitachi B&W monitors, and installed them inside a metal box along with a lens system, Xray film holder, and a controller. Purpose was to make film hard copy of a video still image input, mainly from a CAT scanner machine. At the time doctors were used to dealing with large sheets of Xray film, and wanted to save the CAT scan video images on such film. A friend described a job at such a company "A standard issue job at a typical company that made a boring product".

Such small specialty companies often would take mass produced consumer product and modify it for some special purpose, and sell it at some expensive price. The above video to film box would sell for a few thousand dollars.