2 Oct
2008
2 Oct
'08
7:07 a.m.
Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> writes:
(My brain wants to say it transmitted as part of the
Teletext signal
for use with the various Teletext adapters - Morley, Acorn etc. - but
I'm not certain).
Yup -- the Advanced Teletext System manual refers to it as
"telesoftware". There's a PDF of the ATS manual here containing some
screenshots and a brief description of how the data was transmitted:
http://www.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/~bbcdocs/hardware/ATS_Handbook.zip
Mike Brown's web pages have lots of pictures of the Ceefax Telesoftware
service, and the text of the shutdown notice:
http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/telesoftware/
--
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>