Retsy Series 1 · Card 0241 · 80-TEC
Every channel at your fingertips. Almost.
A cable box connected by a long cord to a clicker with rows of push buttons and a sliding channel lever.
The story · 1983
The Slide-a-Channel sat on top of the TV with a cord stretched across the living room carpet like a tripwire. You chose a row with the slider, then mashed a button, and it clunked loud enough to wake the baby. Whoever held the clicker controlled the night, which made the couch a very competitive place.
Tripping on the cord sent the box sliding off the TV so often that families tied it down with shoelaces.
Six finishes
Slide-a-Channel Cable Box comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-TEC
Slide-a-Channel Cable Box is one of 32 cards in the 80s Tech & Gadgets set. Here are the other 31.
