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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
The biggest use of old analog cable boxes is use them for a doorstop or harvest parts out of them for other projects. Somewhere, I have an old Jerrold analog non-remote box that has mechanical pushbuttons for changing channels (up to channel 37). That one is probably from the early '80's and I don't recall seeing any in use since the mid '80's, when remote controlled boxes became standard.
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That box is the Jerrold JSX and the corded remote equivalent is the JRX. Both were available in "open" (mostly in "trapped" systems) or "decoder" versions (with those funky "security" screws) where Jerrold's "scrambling" system was used.
For whatever reason, the JSX always reminded me of a toddler's toy piano. Besides the design I think the build quality affected that impression. It reeked of cheap!
Also, the JSX dates from the early 1980's as that was what was installed in the apartment my then-girlfriend and I shared back in 1982...