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[iscalad]

I thought teletext was a path to a brave new world where I could shop and bank remotely via my TV. This was because in 1976 as an A-level student I attended a public lecture at Exeter Uni where I was told that this was the future and the portrayals of it looked a lot like Teletext. I wonder what happened to that concept.

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[Oldsmobile-88]

On Digital the doomed ITV terrestrial digital platform had the potential to offer interactive services.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

I thought teletext was a path to a brave new world where I could shop and bank remotely via my TV. This was because in 1976 as an A-level student I attended a public lecture at Exeter Uni where I was told that this was the future and the portrayals of it looked a lot like Teletext. I wonder what happened to that concept.

France adopted a system that was more telephone based with a display attached.
It used surplus capacity on the phone line rather than extra lines on the TV signal as the carrier.

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[Oldsmobile-88]

February 1983

If the top 40 show on Radio 1 & 2 on Sunday evening was missed, the charts were checked on Ceefax. I’m sure most of us recall all of those songs.
Travelling in a fried out Kombie, on the hippy trail, full of zombie

 

[Spoonz Red E]

February 1983

If the top 40 show on Radio 1 & 2 on Sunday evening was missed, the charts were checked on Ceefax. I’m sure most of us recall all of those songs.
Travelling in a fried out Kombie, on the hippy trail, full of zombie

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Who could ever forget 'Up Ghere We Belong'?

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Who could ever forget 'Up Ghere We Belong'?

Usually a typo in the Ceefax chart

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

September 1988

The cast of the sitcom Bread in front of the waterfront in Liverpool, much changed these days.
The late Jean Boht who played Nellie Boswell throughout Breads 7 series(69 episodes) run from 1986 to 1991 is bottom left.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Brian Murphy is 91 today. George Roper in Man About The House(1973-76) & its spin off George & Mildred(1976-79) the latter running for 5 series(a 6th was planned but cancelled due to Yootha Joyce’s death in 1980) Also played Alvin Smedley in Last of the Summer Wine from 2003-10.

 

[iscalad]

This week in 1989.

The 4th & final series of Black Adder is about to start. 24 episodes in the entire series.

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[Oldsmobile-88]

25th September 1979

The first edition of Question Time, hosted by Robin Day(1923-2000)