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Early 80โ€™s Cable Box r/nostalgia

Location: Little Rock, Arkansas USA Thing about that Jerrold cable box was that there was a PROM chip on the bottom that the cable company could program so that it would scramble the premium channels you weren't paying for. But you could erase the PROM by shorting its pins to ground.


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The one I really remember was the same coloured box but with buttons and there was a mechanical way to keep the buttons down for pay channels but you could jam a toothpick in there to keep the button down.


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Old school cable box from the 1980's Discussion in ' Visual Arts ' started by PaulKTF, Oct 14, 2018 . Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 Next > PaulKTF Senior Member Thread Starter Location: USA Anyone remember these cable boxes from the 1980's?


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Cable Television in the 1980's. Most of my earliest memories of watching television are associated with my family's move to Georgia in February 1983. I remember our first cable box was beige with a silver dial and it sat on top of our television set. I think our cable company was called "Summit". There was a sticker on the back of the.


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Our first cable box My early days watching cable By Dusty_Hayes On May 08, 2009 I still remember that day in the late 80s/early 90s. There was what appeared to be a repairman fixing our living room TV but our TV wasn't broken. Instead he leaves behind this wood finished box with bright red numbered lights on top of the TV.


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The cable box we had circa 1980 had one dial with something like 31 channels. Made a satisfying clicking sound. My dad found a way to hack it with toothpicks so we'd get free HBO. 134 hyperdream โ€ข 3 yr. ago Our first one was this . 45 DirkVonUmlaut OP โ€ข 3 yr. ago Such empty space for the sake of wooden panels!! I love it! 29 [deleted] โ€ข 3 yr. ago


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80s Tech Memories Ahhhhhโ€ฆ memories of the 80s, and the technology thereof: Toothpicking the cable box - The first cable boxes had a row of 12-15 buttons on them, and a slider switch to choose the channel row, like this:


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