First of all, I apologize for the fuzziness in this picture - it was the only picture my co-workers and I could find after an hour of searching online, but for those of you who are in my age range, you'll be able to tell what it is: an old school cable TV control box. Yep, the precurser to the remote control.
This was the same control box that we got when we first got cable wayyyy back in 1983. It had a little thing on it where you would slide it up and down and land on the channel you wanted. Ours had about a ten-foot cable on it, so fortunately for me it would stretch from the TV to the couch. If you weren't so lucky, you had actually get up off of your ass and walk over to where the slide control box was and change the channel. But for back in the day, it was very high-tech. You have to remember that this came on the heels of us walking over to change the channel on the TV set - a concept that kids today have no knowledge of.
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Ours stayed on top of the telly. The room wasn't really set up right to drag it to the couch, so we didn't get to use it in place of a remote.
We only had this box for a short time before they "advanced" to (I believe) a dial controlled box? Does that sound right for the next generation of Storer Cable?
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