I remember that box. Pretty sure it still exists at my parents’ house. Our connection wasn’t the greatest and I remember flipping the dongle switch a few times to get the Atari to work on the tv.
Addendum: I just remembered that this Atari box was hooked up to another box that had the dongle switch on it that I had to flip and that in turn was also hooked up to the VCR, which was hooked up to the TV, which we had to switch to channel 3 to use.
I remember when you had to use a screwdriver.
I remember when we upgraded to cable and I had to get a box for the TV in my room that only had the VHF/UHF input.
Looked like this:
That laminate wood on electronics really defined an era didn’t it?
All the best stuff was wood paneled!
You’re not wrong!
lol General Instrument.
Were they trying to knockoff of General Electric and Texas Instruments?
I remember the black boxes, modded to descramble the movie and PPV channels.
Mmm, yes.
I remember that box. Pretty sure it still exists at my parents’ house. Our connection wasn’t the greatest and I remember flipping the dongle switch a few times to get the Atari to work on the tv.
Addendum: I just remembered that this Atari box was hooked up to another box that had the dongle switch on it that I had to flip and that in turn was also hooked up to the VCR, which was hooked up to the TV, which we had to switch to channel 3 to use.