Monitor, television
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- OBJECT TYPE
- 9 IN/B&W/SOLID STATE
- DATE
- 1983
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0476.001
- MANUFACTURER
- HITACHI DENSHI LTD.
- MODEL
- VM-906A
- LOCATION
- Tokyo, Japan
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 3068466
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASE; GLASS SCREEN; SYTHETIC KNOBS, FRAME, AND HANDLE; METAL & SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 26.5 cm
- Width
- 22.0 cm
- Height
- 23.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Television
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- HITACHI
- Country
- Japan
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Tokyo
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- THESE USED FROM C. 1979 TO 1995
- Canada
-
EXAMPLE OF EQUIPMENT USED BY THE CANWEST GLOBAL SYSTEM, THE SECOND-LARGEST PRIVATELY-OWNED, ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TV NETWORK IN CANADA - Function
-
USED BY THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND THE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF A TV STATION TO VIEW CAMERA, NETWORK, OR TAPE FEEDS AND TO FACILITATE SWITCHING BETWEEN THEM. [REF 1] - Technical
-
TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF JAPANESE-MADE, SOLID-STATE DEVICES ADOPTED BY TV BROADCASTERS IN THE 1970S AND 1980S. SOLID-STATE EQUIPMENT WAS MORE COMPACT, PRODUCED LESS HEAT AND CONSUMED LESS POWER THAN THE OLDER TECHNOLOGY, ALL KEY CONSIDERATIONS INCRAMPED STUDIO CONDITIONS. [REF 1] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 MFG'S PLATE: 'VIDEO MONITOR/ MODEL VM-906AC/ AC117V 60HZ 28W/ SER. NO 3068466/ Hitachi Denshi, Ltd./ Made in Japan/ CSA'/ STICKER ON BACK READS IN PT: 'CAUTION- TO PREVENT ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT/ REMOVE COVER/.../ Hitachi / Denshi,Ltd./ 23-2, 1-CHOME, KANDASUDA-CHO, CHIYODA-LU/ TOKYO, JAPAN/ PLACE OF MANUFACTURE: SENDAI JAPAN/ MANUFACTURED/ JUNE 1983/ SUBSIDIARIES:.../ HITACHI DENSHI, LTD. (CANADA)/ 922 DILLINGHAM ROAD, PICKERING, ONTARIO/ CANADA, L1W 1Z6/ FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY'/ ON FRONT: 'HITACHI/ Hitachi Denshi Ltd./ [designations around knobs]'/.2 SAME AS ABOVE EXCEPT '3047229'
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- GREY TEXTURED BODY; DARK BROWN FRAME AND FRONT PANEL & KNOBS; BLACK STRAP; GREEN SCREEN
- Decoration
- N/A
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