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Old 03-10-2009, 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by cartravision View Post
...Something I noticed that I thought was strange, the back of the television has a 75 ohm coaxial cable tv input. I did not know cable television was available in 1972? I am only 32 years old and can remember as a kid having to buy adapters to hook cable tv to newer televisions than this through the vhf antenna input.
They started long before then. The first one was in 1948. There were 70 cable systems in 1952.

There were also other reasons for having a 73ohm input. See the attached image from a 1949 Sylvania manual.

John
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