Electronic Program Guide in West Covina, CA on 12/20/89

Here is an interesting historical look at the "Senior" (Amiga 2000 version) of the old Electronic Program Guide software which ran on most cable systems throughout America and Canada during the late 1980s and early 1990s. (The EPG Sr. software was later upgraded into Prevue Guide -- the split-screen version seen at    • Видео   -- which also ran on the Amiga 2000.)

This particular video demonstrates the EPG Sr. running in maintenance mode as a local cable company employee updated the local scrolling and ticker advertisements it displayed while running normally. At the end of this clip, the cable technician finishes his work and puts the software back into normal listings mode. But apparently while getting up to leave, he bumped the Amiga's keyboard the wrong way and tossed the EPG back into maintenance mode without noticing. And that's how it stayed for the rest of the day.

The audio in this clip is another historical item in its own right: Cable Radio Network, which many cable companies used during the 1980s and 1990s as a soundtrack for their assorted computer-generated information channels.

Here's what the EPG Sr. looked like when running normally:
   • Videon Cable-tv - Prevue EPG May 1990  

And what the EPG Jr. (Atari based) looked like, for comparison:
   • Видео  

More of my own Prevue Guide videos:
   • The Saddest Prevue Guide That Ever Lived  
   • Prevue Guide in West Covina, CA (1991...  
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