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I never got the paper, so I calculated it with a program on my computer. It was just very fast to enter some digits vs working through the menus to record something.

I later automated it with electronic listings with just the shows I was interested in, that fed directly into the VCR+ program and gave me a quick list I could enter.

> But the feature to skip commercials sounds pretty sweet.

In some ways it better than what they have now - it would fast forward through the commercial, so you could see if it made a mistake, or if there was a preview, or a special ad that was also partly the show (yah they did weird things like that then).