Soviet TV on ebay!

[ctc17]

I love this. We call it the line, line voltage or the grid and they call it Nourishment from network.

I kinda cant wait to see it now and hopefully give it nourishment. There will be lots of pictures as soon as it arrives.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by electroking

Interesting statement, but I'm not sure many (or even any) western
countries ever had an embargo against the USSR.

I remember, from the late 70s early 80s that Russia not be allowed to buy "microchips", which turned out to be 8 bit microprocessors. The sort found in home computers of the time, like Commodore 64's, vic 20's, Atari 800s and such. What, stuff in my basement at the time was militarily sensitive?

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by electroking

Interesting statement, but I'm not sure many (or even any) western
countries ever had an embargo against the USSR. If you have some
references regarding the history of this, I would like to see them. I trust
this discussion is not drifting too far way from the original topic.

By the way, the site mentioned elsewhere in this thread (rw6ase.narod.ru)
is chock full of nice pictures of old electronics. Be sure to have a look!
Regards to all.

Pure heresay... I haven't got any reference to back it up, in fact I don't remember where I first heard that, I just accepted it as true after rarely seeing foreign content in Soviet electronics.

Suffice to say though there were a multitude of real political and economic reasons everything had to be home grown. Maybe it had more to do with the fact that foreign products would have undermined their economy, as it worked at the time. I did see a 60s Soviet children's cartoon on TV when I was travelling in eastern europe, on a retro tv channel, or program, which cautioned youth against being tempted by the lure of anything which said "Made in xxx" on it (i.e. black market foreign products).

[ctc17]

It arrived today mostly one piece. A bunch of plastic crap in the box and one crack in the case. Typical UPS and poorly packed. One crappy box and a piece of bubble wrap.

I may have to use the negative feedback feature on ebay for the first time,

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by ctc17

It arrived today mostly one piece. Typical UPS and poorly packed. One crappy box and a piece of bubble wrap.

I hate when that happens. Bought an Aussie set, and it arrived in 3 large pieces, and several smaller pieces. All but one still in the box. Managed to reassemble it to a reasonably presentable condition (using epoxy, hot glue and shoe polish) but look carefully and you can see the cracks.

[Kamakiri]

I remember buying a Perdio Portorama from Wales back about 10 years ago, and a Phillips from France in the same timeframe. Both arrived smashed to pieces. Tried to reassemble them to some degree, but they looked a lot more like an archaeological dig than a television set.

Sadly, never got any money back on them. They were insured from their local post offices, and as much as I tried, I got nowhere.

[KentTeffeteller]

Excellent looking Televisionski. Should get Communist pictures veddy, veddy well. Nice USSR conversation piece.

[rcafan]

check with Aurora electronics. Darryl makes all kinds
of converters that you can use to watch
local TV converted to secam

[rcafan]

sorry , should have added this address

http://tech-retro.com/Aurora_Design/Home.html

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by KentTeffeteller

Excellent looking Televisionski. Should get Communist pictures veddy, veddy well.

The better to watch Moose and Squirrel on!


And that converter box looks pretty nice, though no ATSC reception (just feed an ATSC box to the other box's Svideo input). But no French 809i mode.

[Sandy G]

In Soviet Union, TV watches YOU !

[ctc17]

Thanks for the link. Ill get it apart and try and get some pictures up here in the next few days. It has lots of options for power. Looks like it has a 12vdc input.