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I have the matching VTX-100EC tuner for my Sony KX20PS1 Profeel monitor, a Pioneer LD7000 laserdisc player (1983), and a couple of Sony Betamax VCRs (but no 80s VHS VCRs).
Do 80s games systems and home computers count? I'd guess a lot of 80s TVs (and older, many kids got the hand-me-down TV to use for their games) spent a lot of hours hooked up to an Atari 2600, NES or Commodore 64.
I've got a collection of old consoles and computers. A while back I picked up a Japanese model Hitachi 14" set in a red plastic case to match my Japanese Famicom, later I found a National "Action" 8" set (also red). These Japanese sets are absolutely useless here for anything other than being hooked up to other Japanese gear.
Those Jerrold analog boxes were in use here up in until last year (the network may still be going in some areas). The cable company here didn't really bother to collect them when people disconnected so I used to find them every so often.
If you hook it up it should power up with a "DISCONNECTED" message from the last network it was used on. If it doesn't show a disconnected message and lets you flick through the channels someone may have modified it.
If you search around you should be able to find some information on modifying and reprogramming them. You could use it as a tuner for over the air channels if you activate it. I may still have some of the old files on my old computer, but I don't know if that kind of stuff is allowed here.
The network here used channels 1 through 57. Every so often flicking through the unused channels 58 through 99 I'd find something weird. One night I found a camera pointing at a vectorscope in a control room somewhere.
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