<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had a feeling that might be the case. <div><br></div><div>You don't see series numbers x001 too often.</div><div><br></div><div>That begs the story behind where it's been since being made in Camden. Maybe former RCA guy Lytle Hoover has an idea. </div><div><br></div><div>Would be interesting to find out that the machine at CTL is the one in this brochure photo:</div><div><a href="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr3.jpg">http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tr3.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>The TR-3 wound up in some interesting places:</div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17903031@N00/5590815048/lightbox/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/17903031@N00/5590815048/lightbox/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 15, 2011, at 4:57 PM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"> <div>This is the very first TR-3 made. The serial number tells us that. Also the MI number is not the one for the A version. That was MI-43570-A.</div> <div> </div> <div>So you are looking at the very first TR-3 made and sold.</div> <div> </div> <div>Chris Hill</div> <div>WA8IGN</div> <div> </div> <div> <div>In a message dated 8/15/2011 7:16:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"> <div>Stumbled across this well preserved RCA TR-3 on the CTL Electronics web site.</div> <div><br></div> <div><a title="http://www.ctlny.com/vintage/vtr/1971_RCA_TR3.html" href="http://www.ctlny.com/vintage/vtr/1971_RCA_TR3.html">http://www.ctlny.com/vintage/vtr/1971_RCA_TR3.html</a></div> <div><br></div> <div>It's Serial # 3001. Any RCA folks know where in the production run that would put it... and who might have been the first owner?</div> <div><br></div> <div>The other equipment on the archive is pretty cool.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ted</div><br> <div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; FONT-SIZE: 14px; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica">Ted Langdell</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica">Secretary</font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: rgb(0,24,234)" color="#0018ea" size="3" face="Helvetica"></font></div></div></div></div><br>=<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to <a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></font></blockquote></div></font></div>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to <a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div> </div><br></div></body></html>