Uses for analog cable boxes?

[radiotvnut]

The biggest use of old analog cable boxes is use them for a doorstop or harvest parts out of them for other projects. Around here, Crapcast stopped analog delivery about two years ago; so, what analog boxes that were in use suddenly became obsolete. 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.