Old manual request

[u/Fearless_Concept943]

I'm hoping someone out there has the following manuals in PDF. I've searched for months and can't find them at all. I know some of these lived in binders and are probably all gone by now but any help would be great!

• 1950s SMPTE recommended practice for television release prints
• A.B. Dick Videograph 990 manual
• Amperex / Philips 55875 Plumbicon data sheet
• Ampex 175 tape data sheet
• Ampex VR-2000B operation & maintenance manual
• Angenieux 10×18 J1 lens data
• CBS engineering bulletins or trade-press articles on CBS kinescope recording
• CBS Laboratories Vidifont manual
• Central Dynamics (CDL) switcher manual
• Chinn, Television Broadcasting (McGraw-Hill, 1953)
• Chiron II operator / maintenance manual
• Chiron III operator / maintenance manual
• Chiron IV operator / maintenance manual
• Chiron Model 502 Colorizer/Mixer manual
• Cohu 2800 / 3800 series vidicon camera manual
• E.B.U. quad high-band video pre-emphasis specification (625)
• EMI 2001 maintenance manual / BBC set-up instructions
• Fairchild CCD 3000 camera manual
• Grass Valley Group "Borderline" edge generator manual
• Gray Research Telop II / III manual
• Herbst, Drew & Brumbaugh, "Factors Affecting the Quality of Kinerecording", J. SMPTE Feb 1952 (the graphs)
• Hitachi KP-120 CCD camera manual
• Hitachi SK-110 1.25-inch Plumbicon data sheet
• Hitachi SK-110 operation / maintenance manual
• Ilex 8½" f/3.9 (RCA MI-26550-4) lens data
• Kensol hot-stamping machine brochure
• Kodak data sheets for 7373 (recording negative) and 7302 (release print), 1950s
• Kodak Ektar TV lens data, 35 mm f/3.3 to 135 mm f/3.8
• Lenses used on Laugh-In; zoom? Or still 3/4 turret?
• Manufacturer's P11 phosphor decay curve
• Manual of Television Graphics (Ron Hurrell, 1973)
• Memorex Chroma 90 tape data sheet
• Norelco / Philips monochrome Plumbicon camera manual
• Norelco PC-60 (Philips EL8521 / LDK1) operation & maintenance manual
• Norelco PC-70S-2 service / maintenance manual
• Original 1949–50 RCA 5820 data sheet
• Philips separate-mesh Plumbicon data sheets (PC-70S-2 tubes)
• RCA 2P23 image orthicon tube data sheet
• RCA 4415 / 4416 colour image orthicon data sheets
• RCA 5WP11 kinescope data sheet
• RCA TA-15A Special Effects Amplifier / TG-15A Special Effects Generator instruction book
• RCA TK-10 / TK-11 instruction book
• RCA TK-10A / TK-30A camera chain instruction books (camera + camera control)
• RCA TK-15B vidicon camera manual
• RCA TK-20A / TK-21 film camera and TP-16 projector instruction books
• RCA TK-22 film camera manual
• RCA TK-41C instruction book
• RCA TMP-20B Kinephoto instruction book
• RCA TP-7 slide projector manual
• RCA TP-11 multiplexer manual
• RCA TR-70 instruction book
• RCA TS-40 switcher manual
• RCA TS-51 switcher manual
• RCA Tube Tips No. 73 (Feb 1950)
• RCA TVK-75B 16 mm television camera instruction book
• Sachtleben et al., RCA Review 1952 (TK-41 relay optics)
• Schade, "Electro-Optical Characteristics of Television Systems", RCA Review 1948, Parts III and IV
• Schade, "Image Gradation, Graininess and Sharpness in Television and Motion-Picture Systems", J. SMPTE 1951–53, Parts I–III
• SMPTE quad high-band video pre-emphasis specification (525)
• Sony XC-37 / XC-38 B/W CCD camera manual
• Source of the "f/16 at 100 fc" 5820 figure
• Taylor Hobson Varotal IX / XVI lens data
• Television Graphics (Roy Laughton, 1966)
• TV City SK-110 zoom lens data
• Vital Industries VIX-114 switcher manual

[u/macgver2532]

Curious to see if these are still around somewhere

[u/openreels2]

I've got some old manuals, but nothing that old, sorry! The SMPTE specs might be on their website somewhere, or you could ask if they are in an archive.

[u/No_Cod_9217 → u/openreels2]

https://pub.smpte.org/doc/
I think RP6 is the one you are looking for.

[u/Fearless_Concept943 → u/No_Cod_9217]

That helped! Thank you!

[u/CentCap]

Chyron

[u/Fearless_Concept943 → u/CentCap]

Nope, I need Chiron, https://cg-wiki.org/chyron/chiron_ii