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Clipped from Citadel Dispatch • CD166: JEFF GARDNER AND MAX HILLEBRAND - WHITE NOISE PRIVATE CHAT White Noise is a secure private messenger that...

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The early days of pay-to-view TV J. B. of NZ worked for a national TV rental company back in the 1960s, a time when servicing was thriving and employees had to deal with a wide range of people... In those days, renting your TV was more usual than buying it. TVs breaking down was comtas. so the cost of repairs was a major factor driving the rental market. If the family had a poor credit rating, the IV would be fitted with a coin slot mechanism; that was tke early form of 'pay to view'. There was one particular address where the man who emptied the slot meters never found any money in the mechanism and the TV was never on or warm when he visited. I happened to be servicing in the area and phoned into the local shop to ask if they had a particular valve in stock. This led the local branch manager to request that I pop around the corner to check the offending address. From the front door, I could hear the TV was on, so I knocked to gain entry. The household was dirty and smelly (I am sure all TV techs know exactly what I mean). I was led into the front room by two scruffy kids about eight years old. I examined the slot mechanism and found it empty, so I asked the children how they got the TV to work. The answer was to get the money from the refrigerator. I said, "Show me how that works", and they promptly returned with a tray from the freezer that had coin-sized indentations filled with ice. These were the coins to operate the TV! Ireported my findings after I finished for the day to avoid having to 'pull' the set myself. #nztv #bitcointv

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good stuff and do put some show notes or reference. You guys must be on nostr. Havent found yet.

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