The Time Slot: A complicated attempt to control kid's TV screen time in the 1980's/1990's

[@ABCEasyas--]

The Oddity archive would love this.

[@DorothyScheeline]

My parents used this with us until I graduated high school in 2006. It did break but they always managed to fix it. I've never heard of anyone else who had this in their house. It was incredibly stupid.

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

Very interesting....

[@jerryspann8713]

The phone jack was added when Tivo bought out the company. When Tivo took over they decided to charge all users a monthly fee in order to watch their own damn TV. The device calls home to make sure the user has paid their $29 a month fee. These idiots actually paid the monthly fee instead of just plugging their TV directly into the AC outlet.