Nick wrote:
On Oct 23, 8:27 pm, Scott W wrote:
...For anyone who remembers teletext as the only source of weather
info outside the tv and radio broadcasts and newspapers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

I didn't realise it had been round as long as 1974. I'm sure I
remember it coming on stream around 1982, around the same time as the
original home computer revolution (Spectrum, BBC Micro and the like)
though the article does say that you had to have a specialist set to
receive it before then.

Well you always did have to have a 'specialist' set. However by
the early 80s the so-called specialist sets was becoming more and
more common as more TVs were able to receive Ceefax.
Eventually it simply became standard.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Stephen Davenport wrote:

On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:00:13 PM UTC+1, Norman wrote:


Now, that's going back a bit Stephen..........!!!

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Certainly is! You must have won that handy bit of business, Norman. Do you
remember that quirky and clunky keyboard arrangement?

Stephen.

I remember it all too well. It was well nigh impossible to show showers along
the east coast in a northerly. Either you left them out altogether or made it
look as if they were spreading half way across the country.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

On Oct 24, 7:17*am, "Norman" wrote:
Stephen Davenport wrote:
On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:00:13 PM UTC+1, Norman wrote:



I remember it all too well. It was well nigh impossible to show showers along
the east coast in a northerly. Either you left them out altogether or made it
look as if they were spreading half way across the country.


So it was you who was responsible for all those years of
disappointment when forecast overnight snow showers never turned up!

On Oct 24, 6:02*am, "Col" wrote:
Nick wrote:
On Oct 23, 8:27 pm, Scott W wrote:
...For anyone who remembers teletext as the only source of weather
info outside the tv and radio broadcasts and newspapers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

I didn't realise it had been round as long as 1974. I'm sure I
remember it coming on stream around 1982, around the same time as the
original home computer revolution (Spectrum, BBC Micro and the like)
though the article does say that you had to have a specialist set to
receive it before then.

Well you always did have to have a 'specialist' set. However by
the early 80s the so-called specialist sets was becoming more and
more common as more TVs were able to receive Ceefax.
Eventually it simply became standard.
--
Col

I remember buying from an advert in A&B Computing magazine a Morley
teletext adaptor that enabled BBC 'B' users to view teletext pages on
their computers. It seemed state of the art at the time - you could
even save the teletext pages to compact cassette (I couldn't afford a
disk drive). I've probably got the pages of the 1987 cold spell stored
at my mum's somewhere. There was also software you could download from
the BBC site - it often took hours to download stuff and because of
glitches, probably in the binary coding caused by interference, the
programmes often didn't work.
The adaptor started gathering dust when I convinced my mother to
invest in a FST television with teletext - the teletext becoming my
most-watched fifth channel...

"Scott W" wrote in message
...
On Oct 24, 6:02 am, "Col" wrote:
Nick wrote:
On Oct 23, 8:27 pm, Scott W wrote:
...For anyone who remembers teletext as the only source of weather
info outside the tv and radio broadcasts and newspapers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

I didn't realise it had been round as long as 1974. I'm sure I
remember it coming on stream around 1982, around the same time as the
original home computer revolution (Spectrum, BBC Micro and the like)
though the article does say that you had to have a specialist set to
receive it before then.

Well you always did have to have a 'specialist' set. However by
the early 80s the so-called specialist sets was becoming more and
more common as more TVs were able to receive Ceefax.
Eventually it simply became standard.
--
Col

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You could also buy a standalone module. I used to be aware of the main news
headlines, weather and business from fastext in a fraction of the time it
takes to navigate BBCi and with pony tails slowing down web pages' average
loading times we can look back fondly to the instancy of Ceefax. Less is
more sometimes.

Get your fix of teletext if you have a sky box. In "other channels" tune to
10744H 22000 FEC5/6 to access the RTE Aertel service. Also Channel 4 has
racing on P470.

In article ,
Scott W writes:
...For anyone who remembers teletext as the only source of
weather info outside the tv and radio broadcasts and newspapers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

Our pre-teletext TV gave us such noble service that we didn't replace it
till about 2005, so I missed out on the golden age of teletext. It
wasn't the ability to receive the teletext weather forecasts that I
regretted so much as the cricket scores. You couldn't get up-to-date
scores on the web till about 1997 or 1998.
--
John Hall

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Attributed to the Commander of Japan's Submarine Forces in WW2