A sad story

[Steve McVoy]

This is the saddest story I've come across in my limited TV collecting history.

Today I received a Fedex shipment containing a TV camera a guy in San Francisco donated to the museum. In the box were two photos of a mint GE Octagon (probably the rarest mechanical set out there). I immediately called the guy and asked him if the set was his. He told me that he saw it 20 years ago in a TV repair shop in Berkeley, along with about a dozen other scanning disk sets. He told me the name of the shop, and I found their phone number on the internet.

I called the shop and spoke to the owner, who told me that he had the sets until a couple of years ago, when he took them to the city recycling center so that they could recycle the aluminum.