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celeritypc For Lucky Best Wash, Use Mr. Sparkle Premium Member join:2004-05-15 Caldwell, NJ	celeritypc to JimThePCGuy Premium Member 2005-Nov-21 3:57 pm to JimThePCGuy Re: How long have you had cable? I have had cable since 1976. I started with Suburban Cablevision (owned by McLean-Hunter) which was then sold to Comcast in 1995. A note on this is that I was 10 when we got cable and the system had 36 channels of which maybe 20 had something on them. HBO was the only premium. The total cost of cable with HBO: $14.00. HBO was not on 24 hours a day.
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JimThePCGuy Formerly known as schja01. MVM join:2000-04-27 Morton Grove, IL ZyXEL USG 50 Asus RT-AC66 ARRIS SB6183	JimThePCGuy MVM 2005-Nov-21 4:07 pm I was older than 10 in '80. Actually I was 33. The number of channels, HBO and cost sound about right too but I don't remember the exact numbers. The first converter box had 12(?) buttons and a 3-way switch to change between the three different banks of 12. I want to say is was a Jerold box but not sure of that either.
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JeepMatt Streaming Tech Manager Premium Member join:2001-12-28 Seattle, WA	JeepMatt to celeritypc Premium Member 2005-Nov-21 4:25 pm to celeritypc Celerity- I remember too the day that we got cable - I was like in 6th grade or something like that in '84. We had a cable box with a slider thing on it to slide between channels. We also had an extra HBO "black box" between that box and the TV. Yes, HBO was only on a few hours a day - and had the scrolling blue screen guide during off hours. HILARIOUS!
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nascar join:2000-02-28 Verona, NJ	nascar to celeritypc Member 2005-Nov-21 4:30 pm to celeritypc said by celeritypc: I have had cable since 1976. I started with Suburban Cablevision (owned by McLean-Hunter) which was then sold to Comcast in 1995. A note on this is that I was 10 when we got cable and the system had 36 channels of which maybe 20 had something on them. HBO was the only premium. The total cost of cable with HBO: $14.00. HBO was not on 24 hours a day. I think you beat me by a year, 1977. Ditto to everything you said. Except I think I was 13. And HBO was and still is trapped at the pole
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celeritypc For Lucky Best Wash, Use Mr. Sparkle Premium Member join:2004-05-15 Caldwell, NJ	celeritypc Premium Member 2005-Nov-21 4:40 pm said by nascar: I think you beat me by a year, 1977. Ditto to everything you said. Except I think I was 13. And HBO was and still is trapped at the pole West Caldwell (where I grew up) got cable a year before Verona (if that is where you lived at the time.) My street was the first street turned on in the town. My parents are still in the same house and still have cable.
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