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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I need model # of this, I
need manuals... would be fin to have the rest of the
guts... has a big ass plug that hooks to a ccu... also need tripods and
pedestals for them and i want to set one of the camera up with a full
turret of lenses so we need lenses to fit it... but most of
all.... wanna hear how these were used and where and maybe some
stills of them in use.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Those are Dage 520's. They were mono Vidicon cameras. This is confirmed by
7735 tube type numbers in one of your pix. My understanding is that Dage
equipment was popular with educational institutions. The company I once worked
for (both a UHF broadcaster and an equipment dealer) sold Dage and other brands
to colleges. We even used a pair of them on our B & W remote unit, along
with a Dynair switcher, Riker sync gen and RCA TR-5 quad. Back in 1970, this
wasn't too bad a setup for a small town station. The color truck had
PC-70's.</DIV>
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<DIV>That big connector has been around at least since the days of a TK-11
camera. Nearly every domestic camera maker with split camera-CCU used it. In the
color realm, it was TV-81 and TV-85 nomenclature, IIRC. The CCU's you seek are
just 2RU tall. Dage could take a zoom lens, as your pix show. We only had
one of those, the second 520 used C-mount fixed lenses.</DIV>
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<DIV>520's weren't too heavy. One person could place them on a Hercules tripod
easily. Being Vidicon, they were almost unusable doing night
high-school football games at your typical 1970's era stadium. Pretty much
a daytime camera. I am still amazed that our sales department could line up
any sponsors for some of the horrible quality tape we dragged back to the
studio after shooting a Friday night football game. Towards the end of their
life at our station, the best 520 got to be the scoreboard camera in the color
truck. Hardly a glorious end to one's career.</DIV>
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<DIV>To a kid of 17 working his first job in broadcasting, a 520 was a
magnificent triumph of engineering, exceeded only by a quad tape
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