Fond memories indeed. Like gaius, as a kid I had a BBC Micro, and created many a pretend teletext page in MODE 7. In my final year studying computer science in

Fond memories indeed. Like gaius, as a kid I had a BBC Micro, and created many a pretend teletext page in MODE 7. In my final year studying computer science in the UK, for my dissertation project I chose to try to get teletext available on the X Window workstations on our SunOS computers. I didn't get as far as the graphics side of it but I did implement a subset of RPC in BBC BASIC and 6502 assembler on a BBC Micro equipped with a Teletext Adapter and get pages coming across a serial line. I had my aerial attached to an upside-down broomstick outside the computing lab. Just after my project finished, broomstick and aerial were stolen, no doubt to be stuck in a similarly upside-down traffic cone in someone's bedroom. So goodbye Teletext. Oh, and all that music they used to play in the background when all that was available late at night on TV was a selection of Teletext pages.