I was with Bell Cablemedia originally, think that went to Cable and Wireless, then NTL, now VM. (someone need to looks into VMs monopoly these days....)
The box was a Jerrold and incredibly hot - it provided central heating for the room ! Treated myself to cable in time for the 1996 Cricket World Cup ! Of course didn't tell Mrs K. that was the reason, until it was all too late to cancel ! Didn't take telephone till much later, remember they provided free dial up internet but was very slow to roll out - as soon as it came to my area they decided to charge - still aggrieved about that one.
One of the most memorable cable analogue nights was when the Adult channel became unscrambled for everybody
Someone lost their job I guess, but there was a lot of very satisfied/pretending to be outraged customers
Took ages for anyone to report it for some reason....