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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 |
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Stephen Davenport wrote:
On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:00:13 PM UTC+1, Norman wrote: Now, that's going back a bit Stephen..........!!! ============= 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. |
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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! |
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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... |
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![]() "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 -------------- 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. |
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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. ![]() 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 |
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