Philco C7542BPC (3CY91 chassis) console

[RetroHacker]

This was a curb rescue, found amongst a sofa, coffee table, and other furniture. The pile marked in the time-honored traditional way, with a piece of corrugated cardboard, scrawled upon with a Sharpie to proclaim everyone's favorite word - "FREE". I stopped to investigate, and couldn't not bring it home with me - you don't see too many early 70's consoles any more, and this one is pretty clean. I managed to pick it up by myself and get it into the back of my van.

This is a Philco/Ford 3CY91 chassis, and is in Sam's 1344-1, dated 1973. I was even able to get the Sam's from my local source. It definitely appears to have been a quality set, with a cold chassis transformer type power supply, and fully modular.

I powered it up, and got a fairly bright, fully scanned static filled raster, although the convergence seemed a little poor. I connected a game console for a quick test pattern, and was able to get it to tune in partially - the horizontal wouldn't lock, and the color would only come in if I pressed harder on the pushbutton. While attempting to adjust the user control for horizontal hold, I lost the vertical deflection, and the breaker popped and shut off the set. Clearly, it's going to need some work.

Still, an interesting find. Would be nice to get this one running again, it's a good example of a modular solid state set.

-Ian