"Scott W" wrote in message
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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.
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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.