Reply to: Dear Ceefax....

[TestMangler]

I miss it too. It was so simple. Hit the text button on your remote then 101 for news and 301 for sport.

The red button doesn't do it for me :

Doesn't do it for me either. I pressed the red button on my TV remote when they told me to, and my f***ing TV went off.....

[Moscow Mule]

... Ceefax. They had a quiz.

2/2

[Moscow Mule]

I used to love...

1/2

[NickFitz]

Enjoy an evening of Ceefax from October 1983

"The raw data for these pages was saved to tape drive by Mark Cook who wrote software to recover the data and save it to PC. He then e-mailed the individual frames to TTAN where I decoded it into Videotex, corrected any errors and converted them to GIF files. The HTML interface was contributed by David Bennett. We hope they bring back a few memories for you."

[SimonMac]

Still topical though, come on!

Meh, close enough for government work

[Scoobos]

personally I still think its leagues ahead of this red button crap.

[SupremeSpod]

Yes I know the difference, I was just commenting the fact that it wasn't a Ceefax designer, it was Teletext, IIRC the picture is also about 10 years old as Digitiser ended in 2003

Still topical though, come on!

[SimonMac]

Ceefax (phonetic for "See Facts") is the BBC's teletext information service transmitted via the analogue signal, started in 1974 and run until April 2012

Yes I know the difference, I was just commenting the fact that it wasn't a Ceefax designer, it was Teletext, IIRC the picture is also about 10 years old as Digitiser ended in 2003

[Diver]

Do you not notice where it says Teletext at the top?

Ceefax (phonetic for "See Facts") is the BBC's teletext information service transmitted via the analogue signal, started in 1974 and run until April 2012

[SimonMac]

Ceefax designer has the last laugh with a farewell image of a... on Twitpic

Do you not notice where it says Teletext at the top?

[SupremeSpod]

Ceefax designer has the last laugh with a farewell image of a... on Twitpic

[SimonMac]

Ceefax is the reason BBC journalists have to limit their headlines to 33 characters max: BBC - The Editors: Changing headlines but, as that technology is phased out, they have to continue to do so to cater for mobile devices.

Many years ago I worked on the embedded software for Teletext transmission systems. It was written in Forth for the most part; a lot of the boxes were 6809 based and so used 6809 ASM for stuff like the interrupt handler to stuff the FIFO output buffer when the VBI came around.

That company was also the creator of full-field Teletext, where the entire frame was used, allowing for faster page turnaround: those systems were installed in just about every railway station and airport in the land, and also abroad. A mate of mine wrote the system for Dublin Airport, which then ran 24/7/365 for at least three-and-a-half years without a single error - after that he left the company so doesn't know if it ever errored before being decommissioned

FTFY

[NickFitz]

Ceefax is the reason BBC journalists have to limit their headlines to 33 characters max: BBC - The Editors: Changing headlines but, as that technology is phased out, they have to continue to do so to cater for mobile devices.

Many years ago I worked on the embedded software for Teletext transmission systems. It was written in Forth for the most part; a lot of the boxes were 6809 based and so used 6809 ASM for stuff like the interrupt handler to stuff the FIFO output buffer when the VBI came around.

That company was also the creator of full-field Teletext, where the entire frame was used, allowing for faster page turnaround: those systems were installed in just about every railway station and airport in the land, and also abroad. A mate of mine wrote the system for Dublin Airport, which then ran 24/7/365 for at least three-and-a-half years without a single error - after that he left the company so doesn't know if it ever errored before being decommissioned

[pacharan]

I miss it too. It was so simple. Hit the text button on your remote then 101 for news and 301 for sport.

The red button doesn't do it for me :

[SimonMac]

Is that deer as in expensive or deer as in "Bambi"?

Just asking, like.

As in oh deer I have fat fingers!