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...