A RCA TK-15 camera in Australia still survives

[Aussie Bloke]

G'day all.

Just been viewing this video of 50th anniversary of TNT-9 Launceston Tasmania (now Southern Cross Television):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6yg9HYa_o
And in the video about 55 seconds in I saw one of their original RCA TK-15 vidicon cameras nicely preserved sitting on its original dolly!!! It is very nice to know one of these cameras still survive as they are rarer than rocking horse shit even in the USA, according to Chuck Pharis's page http://www.pharis-video.com/p5303.htm not many of these cameras were made! Whilst these cameras were primarily for industrial applications and low budget broadcast stations, a few stations in Australia purchased these cameras in the early 60s, TNT-9 Launceston TAS had 2 of them and as seen in the video one survives in good condition, NBN Newcastle NSW had at least one and my local station WIN-4 Wollongong had two of them in their studios, all three stations opened in 1962.

Anyways thought I'd share this with you's.

Cheers
Troy