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Had no idea there was a forerunner for printing, Beeb Fax from before fax machies too! :) Philips did produce some Ceefax TV's with printers though. https://o
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Had no idea there was a forerunner for printing, Beeb Fax from before fax machies too! :)
Philips did produce some Ceefax TV's with printers though.
https://obsoletetellyemuseum.blogspot.com/2011/12/philips-26cs389008r-year-1984.html https://obsoletetellyemuseum.blogspot.com/2011/12/philips-26... (Scroll a couple of pages as they have the world's biggest page header!)
- Jaruzel 8y agoWow, that guys site is a gold mine of classic TV information. There's several books-worth of information in there.
- _trampeltier 8y agoI know a guy who, even today, use Teletext for all kind of things (mostly sport results). I remember ORF (Austrian TV), they had samples of QBasic source code. Teletext was really a nice thing to have in Europe.
- andyjohnson0 8y agoMy dad used it here in the UK right up until the service was ended. I used to gently make fun of him at the time, but I now see that he knew it was the most efficient way for him to get the information that he wanted. He was optimising for time and simplicity, not sophistication.