Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records?

Quality tonearms were produced before antiskating became a feature.
Somewhere in the ?? late 70's it started being used on some arms.
Eventually nearly all arms got it.
It will NOT damage your LPs or your cart to not have it.

VPI recommends NO anti-skate. Anti-scate is a crapshoot, and is NEVER right. It depends on the loudness being tracked (which constantly is changing), shape of stylus, VTA, and numerous other conditions. No antiskate is fine. Use your cartridge at the higher tracking force of the recommended suggested range.

E and S, thanks so much for the guidance! Elizabeth, it is always great to hear from you, but I think that bias adjustments came earler than that; one of my arms is a Micro Seiki MA202L from around 1970 with standard anti-skate. It would be interesting to see when it became common on arms. The new old arm is an ESL (Ortofon) 2000, so I will go for it.