1963 Setchell Carlson color roundie

[Telecruiser]

Somewhere in the back of my mind, there was a connection between Setchell Carlson and Ball-Miratel who made color video monitors. Am I imagining this? Ball also made (still makes) glass jars for home canning... Go figure.

[ohohyodafarted]

in the early 70's Ball also was in the computer business. I recall they were making disc drives.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Telecruiser

Somewhere in the back of my mind, there was a connection between Setchell Carlson and Ball-Miratel who made color video monitors. Am I imagining this? Ball also made (still makes) glass jars for home canning... Go figure.

The green monochrome monitors used on machine tools were made by Ball Bros. The logo was the same as the packaging products.
Ball also owns the old Schlitz can plant on the northwest side of Milwaukee.
Miller brewery uses their products, exclusively.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Here's a little timeline of Ball Miratel's video monitor operation. It's still sketchy who was manufacturing the consumer division of Setchell Carlson TV's during the late 60's.

http://www.tech-notes.tv/History&Tri...l_brothers.htm

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Here's a little timeline of Ball Miratel's video monitor operation. It's still sketchy who was manufacturing the consumer division of Setchell Carlson TV's during the late 60's.

http://www.tech-notes.tv/History&Tri...l_brothers.htm

The firm I worked at bought three CNC machine tools in 1978. The one with the Bendix control had a Setchell Carlson display, the Giddings & Lewis controls, had Ball Brothers displays.
I didn't think, there was any relationship between the two.
Other strange manufacturing relationships, like Helena Rubenstein building R390 receivers.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Here's a little timeline of Ball Miratel's video monitor operation. It's still sketchy who was manufacturing the consumer division of Setchell Carlson TV's during the late 60's.

http://www.tech-notes.tv/History&Tri...l_brothers.htm

An interesting read, but considering that was taken from reports to share holders, and HOW BADLY those reports to the holders were written, I'm surprised anyone wanted to own their stock......It's like they hired a grade school kid to write their reports.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Telecruiser

Somewhere in the back of my mind, there was a connection between Setchell Carlson and Ball-Miratel who made color video monitors. Am I imagining this? Ball also made (still makes) glass jars for home canning... Go figure.

Aside from both being in Minnesota, one connection is, they both sold a LOT of black-and-white monitors to the airport/airline video display industry. For over thirty years, I paid a lot of bills fixing monitors of both brands. The Ball Brothers TD-23, in particular, I should have the schematic diagram memorized by now. R162 15k, R164 15 ohms, R165 33 ohms 2 watts...