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 In addition, there was a channel played back off Laservision disks called The Cable Jukebox [[https://www.discogs.com/label/1842528-The-Cable-Jukebox]].
-Cable TV subscribers could call a number and select a track to play, this would be queued and then played out in sequence.
+Cable TV subscribers could call a telephone number (a low cost but premium rate number) and select a track to play, this would be queued and then played out in sequence. Revenue was generated by the call charges to request tracks.
-Each month the LaserVision disks were swapped out for a new set. (Major Mike, you know who you are!)
+Each month the LaserVision disks were swapped out for a new set, reports were generated and copied to the somewhat unusual 5 1/4" floppy disk drive. (Major Mike, you know who you are!)
 The stack of eight Laservision players were controlled by a rack mount DEC Rainbow 100 computer. This was an unusual beast, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100. The version in use here ran CP/M.