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12-08-2003, 07:22 PM
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A sad story
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. 
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12-08-2003, 07:41 PM
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Steve,
I feel your pain. Society doesn't have much patience for 'champions' if they get in the way of it's insatiable needs. For example, if the word got out that I stood in the way of more than 10,000 lbs. of aluminum in the way of microwave dish antennas being sold as scrap from the Algonquin Radio Observatory a few years ago and saved the dishes for re-application in science instead of being turned into beer cans, I'd probably have a crowd of angry Canadian beer drinkers on my case! If this was the store owner that had assembled the collection, you'd think he would have been bright enough to realize it was precious and irreplaceable. Scrap aluminum. Now you won't be able to crack a cold one without crying. 
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12-17-2003, 06:30 AM
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Last edited by Steve McVoy; 12-17-2003 at 06:40 AM.
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