[user104658]

Does anyone remember back when you could "spark" sky box office / PPV sports with a 9v battery? . It was back before it was all broadband-based and PPV activated via your phone line. Basically you unplugged the box from the phone line, stripped the wire, attached one of the coloured wires to the " + ", ordered your content and then as it was "pending" you flicked another of the wires on the " - " of the battery and it would register it as activation. Those were the days!