1963 RCA CTC-12 Ainsworth (Australian)

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wow .. an Aussie roundie... history of set would be fascinating? A rare beastie indeed? Aussie tuner? When was it converted to PAL???? what a find!!!!! Good luck with the cataract!

The history seems to be a little unclear, but this is what I've pieced together -

It's earliest known history is at the Channel 7 television studio in Melbourne, before it then ended up at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) as some sort of test set. The seller said that it was converted to PAL at the RMIT, so that brings it's history at Ch. 7 into question, as it sounds like it was an NTSC test set at the time. I would say that this set is possibly one of the original colour sets that were experiementally used to see which system Australia would adopt (PAL vs NTSC).

When I have the time, I'm going to email both the RMIT and Ch. 7 studios to see if either have any more background information on this set. Either way, this is an awesome piece of Australian history.

Here's an indepth discussion about cataract removal from a few years back here on VK. It also includes a number of pictures and lots of hands on experiences.

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=250651

Thank you for that link! There's some helpful discusison there, so I'll have to see what happens when this set arrives.

Chris