A “top man” around here is bidding on it. 😃

What I’m puzzling over it that’s it’s 3/4 inch U Matic tapes. I would think a major cable network would broadcast using one inch VTR’s or whatever the standard was in the early 80’s. Was this something HBO sent around as a promo or for some other purpose?

U Matic was more a mainstay of small tv stations and local cable companies. The college tv station I once slaved at carried the programming of a network called NCTV, but we didn’t get their satellite feed, (for reasons I’ve long forgotten) so they sent us a box of U Matic tapes for each month’s programming. They had to be sent back the next month of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_College_Television
In retrospect, I should have dubbed some of those tapes off when nobody was around. 😉

I really want to know if the seller has other HBO tapes.