My childhood home (brand-new in 1967) was wired with that silver-asphalt "Romex" from top to bottom in Fayetteville, NC. Although I was only seven years old, I remember it well. Even the 6/3 for the range had this same form of jacket (no ground wire of course). I was just a very inquisitive kid, what can I say?
My parent's house in Virginia that was built in 1974 still had some 4/3 SEU cable feeding the furnace that had a similar jacket. The second 4/3 circuit was "that modern stuff". Wow, two 70 amp copper circuits feeding a straight-electric forced air furnace. Can you imagine that these days?
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