RCA CT100 Pt2 CRT TEST Shipping Set and CRT Estate Finds 

That computer board has an extremely rare and early 1975/76 6502 processor on it. Those are worth a lot to the right collector

Vintage computer chips! Yes, send to Adrian Black. It's look like that 6530 processor chip was used in Commodore drives and pinball machines. Love the bunny.

The tape, I noticed had CLOAD on it. That is a command for loading basic programs into a computer. We owned a TRS-80 model III and it used that same command. Don't know what other computers would have used CLOAD but it's definitely some computer program or data stored on the cassette.

I don’t find these sorts of videos boring at all, I could watch this all day.

The CT-100 is ridiculously overbuilt, so no surprise seeing degaussing hardware in it. The set also did true YIQ color decoding and the tube used full NTSC spec phosphors. Anything that came out later was an exercise in cost cutting. The back plane computer shown towards the end looks like a home built S100 bus machine. Looks like you got a new set of rabbit ears too.

Being a 77 year old ham (K1ZEK) and electronic service engineer I LOVE this kind of video, even my wife of 55 years enjoyed it. FYI I did my family a favor and cleaned house,some what. HI HI .73 Leo. k

I think that a CT-100 is practically a prototype. I'm not surprised that the CT-100 CRT is a premium item. I've always read that a CT-100 running right has amazing color, though I've never seen one. Something about different phosphors than were used later. Probably zero cost cutting in that set. They were built to go out there and show off what color TV looks like.

National Lumber! I just got a nostalgia hit, growing up in SoCal in the 70s/80s. I still remember the commercials and the jingle......"Get the good stuff at the right price.....National Lumber!"

@17:40 Holy crap! Your own rotary-tweebulator! After all these long years finally you have your own, and it even still works!!! So much envy!

Wasn't expecting the rabbit!

What an amazing find. The RCA CT100 made me gasp. That needs to be meticulously restored, every nook and cranny and go to the American History Museum at the Smithsonian. I have no doubt they would display it. Just magnificent.

That ceramic MOS 6530 chip at 42:05 could be valuable, up to $500 on ebay maybe could cover cost of everything you bought. Looks like one sold in oct for $300 plus shipping.

Wow that slotted motherboard was part of an S100 computer system from the 70s! cool find.

Thanks! I would be in heaven if I got a haul of parts like that and my wife would kill me if I did. Even the drawers are cool. A man can dream. Thanks for the vicarious thrill Shango! PS I built a wameco S100 computer just like that back in the day. I think I’ll dig it up and fire it up! My favorite card was “the heater”. Basically a termination board for the passive back plane (pane?) to prevent ringing made from scores of resistors.

Not boring at all. Very nostalgic and reminds me of my days @ Allied-Signal Aerospace in the 70's - 90's. Thanks Shang, now back to grinding my beryllium oxide ceramic heatsinks.....

Anyone that made it to the end is a hardcore Shango fan! I loved it, Thanks

I think beryllium oxide ceramics are pink, purple and blue. White ones -should- might be ordinary aluminium oxide, not hazardous. The one that said beryllium oxide on the case, might be not the original case for those white insulators. 34:45 high precision high voltage trimmer capacitors, super hard to get nowadays, and *very* expensive. If you unscrew the cap, there's the adjustment underneath 36:39 probably microwave nuvistor tubes in their sockets PLEASE don't trash it! 39:26 There's a 7586 Nuvistor new in box, don't miss that! 42:38 You should send this stuff for Adrian Black or CuriousMarc Please don't toss out or recycle anything from this batch, 99% of these is very valuable to the right person. Ask Marc Verdiell (Curious Marc) and/or Fran Blanche about the industrial stuff, Adrian Black about the computer stuff. You can find home for anything that you don't need amongst RU-vid creators -any- and hobbyists. ( *EDIT* : "and" typo, and correction on beryllium oxide ceramics based on Bob Kirkham's reply)

Oh no! Not the Cat! I will be missing 😢. He was the soul of the place.

Send the computer to Adrian’s digital basement if you don’t care for it. That MOS 6530 cpu is a beauty

Not at all boring, there's nothing I like better than buying a job lot of electronic parts and going through them. Watching someone else do so is not quite as enjoyable, but still enjoyable.

At 043:32, the boards in that box are very likely engine speed cards for Pratt and Whitney JT3D Series (Turbofan) Jet Engines. They were used on 707's and some DC-8 variants, if memory serves. I worked as an avionics systems engineer for 18 years, whenever we shipped "high dollar prototype certification-calibrated/certificated test equipment", if we didn't hand carry it, Allied Mover's Electronic Systems was our chosen method of shipment. British Airways Bonded Courier Services, through Smiths Aerospace, took fragile items to most of Western Europe, while LOT Polish Airways serviced Eastern Europe. Cathay Pacific, QANTAS, and JAL Courier Services delivered/retrieved items destined for the Pacific and Indian Ocean Areas.

Give us an update on the bunny in a few months. Cool seeing all the stuff in draws.

Those boards wrapped in foil seem to be for an Altair 8800 computer expansion. That's some special stuff there.

I got fooled!!. When I first saw the bunny, it looked like it was eating a bunch of loose capacitors and resistors.

hi shango, at 41.09 it should be an s-100 home made computer, like an altair 8800 or something. It's valuable and historic, if you don't use it consider the idea of giving it to a retrocomputer channel like adrian digital basement for instance, he's pretty good at restoring those kinda things

I had those books many years ago. I got them in a dumpster dive in front of a very old TV/Radio repairman's estate. They were in a huge binder along with several hundred other schematics. I put them all up on eBay. Great TV video!

Boring? Never! Thanks for posting anew, I feel complete again. And you got your own bunny to cuddle with. 😁

Holy Crap indeed! That CRT is a real Methuselah! Lots of ham radio shit in that estate haul. Those ceramic tube plate caps were in 811A and 6146 sized. The smaller ones will fit most Octal based sweep, HV rectifier and HV regulator tubes, but not the Novar and Compactron based types. Those ceramic wafer switch sections would be just the thing for a home brew linear amp.

Wow, the 10 turn pot with the clock like display was on the the HP atomic clock "C-Field" adjustment featured on one of CuriousMarc's videos recently. I've never seen one before and have now seen two in as many days. Great stuff, Cheers.

These drawers with doornob caps are a ham radio linear amplifier builders dream.

A quick search on ebay for the MCS 6530 chip shows a few listed at around $500, quite a few followers on those listings. Seems to be a desirable vintage chip? Not sure how much they are actually selling for, but odds are it is somewhere in that ballpark.

All kinds of neat old stuff. Awesome score!

hi shango , that microprocessor at 42:08, is an MCS 6530 from 1976. Not that common nowadays, and could be quite valuable. See also Adrians Basement re MCS 6502. posted 4 weeks ago.

That old computer is nice! Looks maybe S100 bus, so 75/76? Some good money there to the right person!

When I was younger, I used to deliver computer equipment, and sometimes if I had a lone monitor in the back of the truck I would take turns really fast so I could hear it tumble around back there! Never necked one though... but there were usually a few extra pieces of plastic knocking around in the case after I was done with it.

That CT-100 RCA color tv, an engineer friend of mine told me, that model had the best color demodulation circuit that had better color detail resolution than later TV sets after it. That guy had a lot of neat electronic parts/things, some of which I would not mind having.

At the beginning of the video, I have that Television Service Clinic book in PDF form already; I can send a copy if you'd like. 6:33 is the Field Neutralization Coil. It works the opposite of a degaussing coil by applying a constant DC voltage to it to correct color impurity. It evenly magnetizes the shadow mask instead. There is an adjustment on the back of the set for it opposite the selenium rectifiers.

As others have stated, that is a homebrew computer, and it is indeed historic and rare; because of how early it is. There are quite a few RU-vid channels and collectors who would want that.

I found all of that interesting. I have never seen so many aerospace spec components. Your new companion reminds me of an early BBC TV test pattern. 🙂

Adrians Digital Basement (RU-vid) would take those MOS 65XX Processors of of you in a heartbeat.

The bunny is probably a reincarnation of the cat

Love the "look at crap" videos as see a lot of stuff that's mostly gone, oh and the hand wire woubd S100 bus comp board with 6530 worth a good few hundred bucks for chip alone ... the foil wrapped boards does look like 8800 or other altair (or its clones) expansions as mentioned by a few others , all worth coin to the right joe

That RCA color CT100 TV is, or will soon be, a *priceless* early post-World War II relic -- particularly considering the excellent condition of the CRT. There aren't many people alive today old enough to firsthandedly remember when these sets first graced the household electronics showrooms of the mid-1950's. I'm sure the current owner will provide an *excellent* home for it.

Adrian's digital basement. would be a good place for those computer boards.

Those capacitors are really popular with guitar guys. I don't personally like putting them in amps but putting them in low voltage situations they're fine

My favorite ASMR is rummaging. This is so good

42:38 That's an S100 board back-plane and the boards are the various components of a s100 based computer. Definitely collectable, especially with hand wire wrapped boards.

Remember finding a Sam's photo fact for one of these in an electronics- junk store back in the 1980s.

Your bunny rabbit is so cute.

No wonder those manuals were so good, they practically had to teach technicians how to repair color televisions. The first sets were apparently some real quality.

I find your "look at my crap" videos to be quite fascinating.

I have one of those exact analog multimeters I saw on your table. Great meter

So happy that 15GP22 tested as well as it did. I remember reading somewhere that those were all done as a single run prior to the sets being released. I'm wondering if that truly was a high hour set if the CRT was replaced at some point which would account for the really high emissions. Allied radio had 15GP22 CRT's in their catalog as late as 1964 or 65.

Sorry man, your stuff just isn't boring .appreciate your knowledge and skills. Thank you..dig the comments made yourself. Four twenty ✨️

That white ceramic 6502 is worth a few sheckles. I'd hang on to that homemade computer or try to resell it. Don't throw it away.

You packed the CRD well for how it's beeing transported. I personally have built crates to ship rare CRTs. That tube is rare, Ming Dynasty rare. I sure hope it makes it. As for the chassis, magnetic and electrodynamic convergence. Focus and convergence electrodes in the tube. The convergence controls were on the front panel. The degaussing circuit it is a "field neutralizing coil" that is on all the time. You adjust it during setup to neutralize stray magnetic fields that could impact purity. The setup on these sets seemed like a day long affair. After moving one, even a perfectly restored one, they require check and readjustment. When working right they produce a very nice, Technicolor style picture. I'm glad you helped save it - Thank you!

Man, you could sell that early 70's computer stuff for a lot of money!

You were lucky to have coloured television back in 1954,In Australia, we did not get television until 1956 and it was black and white and it was black and white right up to 1974 and the following year of 1975 that's when coloured television came to Australia.

Well I kept watching, love going through old crap like that.. Oh yeah,, maybe 50s microwave diode..

That cassette has a program on it for a TRS80 computer. Cload was the command to load a program from cassette tape. I used to use them a lot in High School in the very early 80s. I still have a couple games saved on cassette from back then but no computer to load them onto.

At least you got a free chair when you bought the shipping box.

as a dumpster diver I find the junk drawer part really interesting

It looks like there's a lot of early computer stuff/glass teletype stuff and parts in here. That is definitely worth something to the right person, particularly the vintage parts for folks that are doing rebuilds. This guy probably build the computer out of plans from a 1970s electronics magazine, from the looks of it. Definitely worth keeping and the right person could probably get it going again.

Shango those primitve automotive fuses were stock on Mercedes from the early 80s and older they used to be kind of expensive.

18:11 it's the number one reason I watch. very jealous of the things you get access to.

Hey Shango! Now you have a set of REAL fully FUNCTIONAL Rabbit Ears! :) 73

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Not sure why but one of your better shows. I guess I like old things it reminds me of a time when those components were considered valuable and still are to the right person.

I can't help thinking that Curiousmarc would bite your arm off for some of that mil spec stuff!

Cute Dutch bunny. Had one many years ago. This had to be someone’s pet

@5:47 literally you're in the proverbial "Cool Dry Place." that everything is supposed to be stored in... And we hate the luck that brings so hard from our rusty, baked accelerated weathering chambers that we live in...

I like looking at all the old stuff keep em coming 👍

Lots nice parts there, more radio stuff and amplifier door knobs caps nice parts hard to find them now

Someone like Adrian's digital basement or usagi electic would be interested in those old computer parts!

Those 1960s-vintage Philbrick Researches (George A. Philbrick) op amp modules would probably be worth a bit of money to people restoring 1960s military electronics or lab equipment.

Those green elco connectors, if the right number of pins, are useful for older amf 82-70 pinsetter control chassis. The old style masking unit connectors.

Fantastic! It's great to see that the TV was properly shipped to it new owner. Hopefully we can see it in a future video. And what a great haul from the estate! Many very interesting items. I could watch that stuff all day. I would have gotten the Heathkit automotive analyzer as I drive old cars and have a use for one. Thanks for a great video! Ted

Bunny found a good home!

Christmas come early love these kind of videos

I would be scared to death disassembling that one. Sure is a nice piece of history. Thank you for posting.

You could try packing the tube in a box, buy two seats on a flight one for you the other for the CRT, drop it off at the person who bought it, then fly back to Torrance. The portion of the video where you went through those drawers was interesting especially when you found those 20,000 volt diodes and all that high quality, precision, military grade components used in the AGM-65 Maverick or whatever the old guy worked on. As you probably know, beryllium oxide has a very high thermal conductivity according to Wikipedia: "This colourless solid is a notable electrical insulator with a higher thermal conductivity than any other non-metal except diamond, and exceeds that of most metals"

I instantly recognized those concentric dials and rotary switches at 20:35. Those are the voltage select switches from a Power Designs Inc. precision analog bench power supply, probably a model 2005, 2010, or 5020. We still have quite a few of those power supplies at work, and we still use them to this day. They're old (1970s, 1980s), but they work really well and are rock stable. One of the outer dials was the volts, then the inner one on that shaft was tenths of volts, then the next outer ring was hundredths of volts, and finally millivolts on the second inner dial. You set those dials to whatever precise voltage you wanted the supply to put out. There would have been a bunch of high precision (0.1, 0.01%) resistors connected to the contacts on those switches.

Man...what a great video. Hope that CRT makes it to the destination in good condition. I am like a kid in a candy store (or on the snap on truck, lol), when i come across finds like those parts that were destined for destruction.

The cassette has a computer program on it

That cabinet and its drawers is a keeper. Nice wood work and I feel sure that your laboratory can use the organization.

You might have considered going to a packing store where they could build a wooden packing shipping crate. They are all over the place. It would be expensive but if that is a irreplaceable component this would insure it would get their. Typically they guarantee it gets there in one piece. Ricky from IBM, Ret formerly of Simi Valley now in the Free Independent Constitutional Republic of Florida on the Gulf Coast

That CRT is worth its weight in gold. Maybe worth more.

i love it when i hear your voice i can finanlly sleep

Am sat here, looking at my collection of assorted cardboard sheeting & edge protectors feeling I should offer to help..😳👍

Hope the owner takes real care of it!

That Wameco is an S-100 computer backplane... I see an IA-1000 CPU board (CPU chip missing), probably some memory and I/O cards -- nice! Let me know if it needs a home :)

Those dial pots are sweet, cool for guitar or pedal depending on type and range.

Those Vitamin Q and other old capacitors likely are still perfectly good :) I believe those vitamin Q things contain PCB, so they should more or less last forever. Also lots of interesting high voltage things :)

Love looking at all that great estate items, lots of handy and interesting tech stuff!

You should have Lee Adamson or Tech Time Traveler check out those early computer boards with rare MOS chips

The straws were for snorting beryllium oxide dust. Great Buz!

Cool score. Also 420 MAN DUDE WEEEEED BRAH WEED. Random crap videos are neat. If you scan that book I hope you post it somewhere, it would be a neat read.

Ha ha I'm watching this Sunday morning nice and easy

I like the rabbit!

HI SHANGO. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO

great vid! i'll take all those rotary switch stuff off your hands for a C-note ;)