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I'm not sure what this is exactly... it has a yellow reflective Pennhurst sticker on it like almost anything moveable in the place. Byberry has the same labels except they read PSH (Philadephia State Hospital). I suppose everything they purchased was labeled and indexed somewhere.
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Nanticoke State Hospital used White Stickers like that. Maintenance used them for inventory on all electrical equipment, even if it ran on batteries (like calculators). (I worked at Nanticoke State Hospital for 10 yrs before it divested - like so many state hospitals did,.)
silkster40z
Mon 03-21-2005
From my experience in AV club in highschool, I'd venture that it's a closed-circuit TV monitor, ca early '70s...
Mnementh
Wed 06-08-2005
I saw one of these in my high school science lab, all our teacher said is that it is old, and that it is a lab machine for some kind of analysys.
1337
Fri 07-01-2005
I know our Nuclear Medicine Lab had one of these tv monitor things. I'm not exactly sure how it was used, but I do remember seeing it in about 1984.
silkster40z
Mon 08-22-2005
kinda looks like an oscilloscope
josh
Tue 08-23-2005
Maybe its an old heart monitor?
Radar
Wed 08-24-2005
It is the operator's end of a TV camera. The big T-bar in the center is for switching lenses; it rotates the lens turret on the front of the camera. Date it to the late 60's - early 70's.
Big Al
Fri 09-23-2005
I'm intrigued as to why there would be a TV camera lying around in a psychiatric facility...
rich_edwards79
Thu 09-29-2005
Talk about "Big Brother is watching you'', I first thought it was some kind of 'zoom-a-tenna' gadget, that moved the outside antenna around so the patients could watch 'sporadic e' during the summer.
Puddleboy
Wed 11-02-2005
this stuff in there almost reminded me of one flew over the cuckoos nest it was crazy
Jdizzle
Thu 11-03-2005
I was a broadcasting major in college and I can definitely say that this is NOT the back end of a tv camera. There are 4 positions on the leftmost switch on the bottom row that allow for four different views, the lower two being monitor large and monitor small. What the other two positions are, I cannot tell, even when adjusting the photo around in photoshop just to see. TV broadcasting cameras do not show you anything in the viewfinder other than what you're sending to the switcher unit, though, so I can assure you it's not part of a camera.
Jon Hiller
Sun 11-20-2005
This looks very much like a monitor used in monitoring rooms (some thing I did for over 4 years) to watch security cameras. The buttons control brightness, contrast typical tv style ajustments and the t bar . controls which camera you want to watch(usualy they can be set up for about 4 different cameras for ones I saw like this) and/or if you want it to split screan and watcn multiple cameras at once. How ever I am not sure. Though we had one were I worked that looked just like this only it was black and instead of a t bar it was a large round switch.
Sue the Canuck
Fri 01-13-2006
The sticker is the asset register number. Each asset must have its own unique number. If you had the asset register itself, you'd lookup the number and see exactly what it was, who it was purchased from, when it was purchased, who was responsible for it, its security level and classification, the value, and potentially the depreciation on it. Every asset should have one, whether the asset is movable or not.
Felyne
Sun 10-29-2006
err, and not everything would have a sticker, only assets (ie something that has an expected lifespan of more than one financial year). Not sure about the US, but some countries have a monetary figure that determines whether its an asset or an expense (eg if its over $300 you have to make it an asset).

Hopefully that makes sense, and you probably already know this anyway.
Felyne
Sun 10-29-2006
This television like device reminds me of the small television sets that they used to have at the train stations and bus stations in the 1970's and 1980's in the United States. I never saw them at the train stations in Europe though. It was probably just an American thing. You had to put a quarter in them to make them work. They would run for about 15 or 20 minutes on 25 cents. These small televisions would be bolted to a chair.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.
Joseph
Sun 03-11-2007
I remember when I was young I went with my Mum to Manchester Airport to pick my Dad & spotted some TVs like the ones mentioned by Joseph. Very small B&W screens with a fuzzy picture.
Richard Davies
Sun 04-22-2007
It's an oscilloscope.
Bluebottle
Thu 10-16-2008
I USE TO LIVE IN WILLOWBROOK FROM 1969 TO 1980 I WAS BORN DEAF BUT MY MOM WAS TOLD I WAS DEAF AND DUMB SO WOULDNT LEARN ANYTHING. I THOUGHT WILLOWBROOK WAS THE ONLY PLACE BUT JUST TODAY I RAN INTO THIS WEBSITE AND I GUESS I WAS WORNG MAKES ME FEEL SAD THAT I COULD HAVE ENDED UP THERE TO BECAUSE I STARTED LATE ON THINGS . PISSES ME OFF BEOCUSE I DIDNT GET TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT WHEN IT CLOSED DOWN. OR WHEN IW AS MOVED OUT .
JAMES
Thu 07-23-2009
This looks like the Star Tours video game I have
ilovehorseyrides
Sun 08-16-2009
How could people do these horrible things to these people? Mainly little kids. Every time I think about it I start to cry
Bailey
Tue 11-03-2009
it looks like a pannel to start the electrical chair they had there because when zak bagans nick groff and aaron goodwin investigated there thay found an old electrical chair and zak got put in it and got some most intresting evps (electronical voice phonomanons)
ilovezakbagans
Mon 01-03-2011
I have moved offices, equipment for the Federal goverment. They list all the items in the buildings, serial numbers in a way, with a sticker like this. If they move items from one location to another, or junked the item, it had to be listed. Always wonder if they really could keep track of every little thing.
Kay
Thu 09-08-2011
it looks like the thing you turn by hand just below the screen that has the dots around it says "SAFETY" just to the right. and one of the dials next to that says focus so I would say it is a monitoring system of some sort for multiple channels or cameras.
Beautiful
Wed 12-14-2011

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