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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 466375" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Indeed. We had one in the house when I was a boy. My parents got a very small payment for having it, and (technology of the day) a man came every week to change the waxed paper roll that recorded it's information. I worked out it printed code on the roll every time you turned the set on, off or changed between the 3 available channels. It was hard wired into the back of the tv. If I got particularly bored on occasions I would sit there just pressing the buttons for fun to hear it whir away inside.</p><p></p><p>I wonder how such devices work now, and if they would notice the fact I never watch commercial tv live and when I do watch it I skip forward through the adverts, and how would they cope with so many tv's in each house.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 466375, member: 6969"] Indeed. We had one in the house when I was a boy. My parents got a very small payment for having it, and (technology of the day) a man came every week to change the waxed paper roll that recorded it's information. I worked out it printed code on the roll every time you turned the set on, off or changed between the 3 available channels. It was hard wired into the back of the tv. If I got particularly bored on occasions I would sit there just pressing the buttons for fun to hear it whir away inside. I wonder how such devices work now, and if they would notice the fact I never watch commercial tv live and when I do watch it I skip forward through the adverts, and how would they cope with so many tv's in each house. [/QUOTE]
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