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Old 10-07-2014, 03:07 PM
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Nice VM!

Ah "Channel One" I remember it well. A Ku band fixed position satellite dish was mounted on top of the school. The "Big magic box" normally mounted in the back room of the library or media center, it contained the sat receiver along with decoder, an S-VHS VCR for recording the main program that was hidden away with a key to access it to change the tape (probably 1x a year) then there was a "General Access" VHS deck for the staff to "air" prerecorded tapes to the entire school. There was also an A/V jack on the front of the box for external input.

The output of the box was combined with the CATV feed for the school (if they had one) and then distributed to every tv installed in the place. Standard run of the moll 19' mono Magnavox TV's. They would power on automatically with the system, and where supposed to turn off automatically as well, that did not always happen and the 15.7 Khz from the flyback would drive me nuts.
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