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Post #373710

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auximenies
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What is this, and where can I find one today?
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Date created
17-Aug-2009, 10:10 AM

Picture #3 is actually antenna input, not output.  Thus, doohickey in #4 would be used to connect coax line in (to have cable or antenna pass through the switch-box).

Picture #5 is a broken-off twin-lead connection looking like the end of #4.  This would connect to the TV.  Before coax connectors we had two-terminal VHF antenna in.  If this part of the switch-box were intact, you would need a twinlead-to-coax adapter to connect to modern-ish TVs.

Once connections were made, you would have to slide the switch to select either Atari or antenna/cable.  When the original Nintendo came out, it was fantastic that we no longer had to slide a switch whenever we wanted to play video games.

As SilverWook has pointed out, you can probably find something like this at RadioShack.