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Post by Paul on Oct 14, 2018 11:40:22 GMT -5
In the early-to-mid 1980's this is what our cable box looked like:  Does anyone else remember having one of these back in the day?  |
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Oct 14, 2018 11:47:44 GMT -5
I had one of those in my room. It was great for some reason on that box it didn't scramble ppvs!
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Post by Paul on Oct 14, 2018 11:51:39 GMT -5
I had one of those in my room. It was great for some reason on that box it didn't scramble ppvs! Yeah, the reason is that the box predates when cable companies offered Pay-Per-Views so it didn't encrypt those channels. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Oct 14, 2018 11:53:03 GMT -5
Only 42 channels? How did people live back then? That's barely enough channels to cover the number of gardening channels nowadays. Such barbarous times.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Oct 14, 2018 11:57:54 GMT -5
I had one of those in my room. It was great for some reason on that box it didn't scramble ppvs! Yeah, the reason is that the box predates when cable companies offered Pay-Per-Views so it didn't encrypt those channels. That's funny i never told my mom because she would have taken it for herself! |
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Post by Paul on Oct 14, 2018 12:09:04 GMT -5
Only 42 channels? How did people live back then? That's barely enough channels to cover the number of gardening channels nowadays. Such barbarous times. Ha! Most cable systems at the time only offered something like 20 or 30 cable channels (tops) as I recall. These days they offer 200+ channels, but 98% of those are channels I have no interest in. Bruce Springsteen was right... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 14:03:52 GMT -5
We had the first digital one in 1983. The remote didn't come out until sometime in the next couple of years.
Only other one I remember was that one with like 14 buttons and a switch to move between rows.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 14, 2018 14:09:51 GMT -5
We had the first digital one in 1983. The remote didn't come out until sometime in the next couple of years. Only other one I remember was that one with like 14 buttons and a switch to move between rows. The one with 14 buttons and the switch is what I had. First cable box I saw had just one button. You turned the tv to channel 4,then pushed the button and you got HBO. |
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Oct 14, 2018 14:12:51 GMT -5
Had that one. Remember my mom always yelling at me for moving the slider too fast.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Oct 14, 2018 15:19:57 GMT -5
Oh, hell yeah. Those were exactly how the boxes from our local Cablevision looked.
Disney Channel and Nickelodeon had the highest numbers. Once it was time for The Raccoons, I just slid the dial to the right.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Oct 14, 2018 15:21:49 GMT -5
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Post by Paul on Oct 14, 2018 15:30:14 GMT -5
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Oct 14, 2018 21:32:32 GMT -5
I remember getting this one. And being like. There are channels past 13?!? |
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Post by adamclark52 on Oct 14, 2018 21:45:40 GMT -5
I had a similar one that had twenty buttons and one switch, which gave you forty channels
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Post by Paul on Oct 14, 2018 23:54:29 GMT -5
I had a similar one that had twenty buttons and one switch, which gave you forty channels Ah yes, an A/B switch. |
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Oct 15, 2018 9:02:33 GMT -5
My family first got cable in 1984 and they didn’t look like that relic. They were big, black and square with digital red numbers
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Post by Paul on Oct 15, 2018 9:08:35 GMT -5
My family first got cable in 1984 and they didn’t look like that relic. They were big, black and square with digital red numbers I think our cable system was just antiquated and hadn't updated their system yet. |
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Post by willywonka666 on Oct 15, 2018 9:42:15 GMT -5
One of my fondest memories- I was 8 and suddenly had an additional 20 channels, and I'd rather have those channels (in their form at that time) then the hundreds offered today.
Sadly, I didn't watch MTV much, since I wasn't that big into music at the time, Nickelodeon was mine & my brother's channel
Back then, they would show surgeries on Lifetime on weekends.
Freeform was CBN
C-Span. Meh
I still remember the channel lineup and what was where
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 9:45:45 GMT -5
Only 42 channels? How did people live back then? That's barely enough channels to cover the number of gardening channels nowadays. Such barbarous times. Ch. 42 when I was a kid was Nickelodeon. Good lord, I remember that but no names from anyone I knew in college. .......Ch. 43 & 44 were PPV, 45+ were HBO and the subscriber channels. 51 was NESN (New England Sports Network). You set the box 1 channel higher, switch the TV channel knob from 3 to 2, and you could watch the cable channel before it scrambled. NO ONE FROM COLLEGE. I REMEMBER NO ONE. |
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Post by Paul on Oct 15, 2018 9:54:24 GMT -5
Only 42 channels? How did people live back then? That's barely enough channels to cover the number of gardening channels nowadays. Such barbarous times. Ch. 42 when I was a kid was Nickelodeon. Good lord, I remember that but no names from anyone I knew in college. .......Ch. 43 & 44 were PPV, 45+ were HBO and the subscriber channels. 51 was NESN (New England Sports Network). You set the box 1 channel higher, switch the TV channel knob from 3 to 2, and you could watch the cable channel before it scrambled. NO ONE FROM COLLEGE. I REMEMBER NO ONE. Nickelodeon in the 1980's is worth remembering. Your College friends probably are not. |
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