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I remember seeing that on some of the CCA printed boards. Many companies did similar things. Grass Valley used to put a little drawing of an outhouse or something similar near the "external sync" connection on their schematics.
 
frankberry said:
I remember seeing that on some of the CCA printed boards. Many companies did similar things. Grass Valley used to put a little drawing of an outhouse or something similar near the "external sync" connection on their schematics.
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Grass Valley did that with a lot of PC boards not just in manuals. Most common was a little rabbit - the company was founded by Dr. Robert HARE. I remember one on a series of video distribution amplifiers that featured a little car suggestive of another supplier - the little car on the GVG boards veering off a track and into a wall.

When Tektronix bought GVG in around 1975 the whimsey caught on with some of the TEK technical writers. Not on TEK boards; rather in their manuals. Yes, I do remember the "external sync" which featured a rural cabin with a sink attacked to an outer wall. There was also the "back porch clamp" which pictured a similar building with a porch that was held on with a gigantic "C" clamp. It was a fun place to work back then! GVG used to make their own circuit boards using a very expensive process involving multiple layers of plating, the last of which was always gold. When one of the original PC shop workers retired the company took one of his favorite hammers, cleaned it up and heavily gold plated it for him instead of handing him a watch or something with no real meaning.
 
I originally wrote Tektronix and then changed it to Grass Valley. I'm glad to know that I was accurate in both cases.
 
I have an older Broadcast Warehouse pirate exciter that has a hand shooting the "bird". Ahhh! Good times back-in-the-day before BW Broadcast became all fancied up. LOL!
 
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