20 Oct
2019
20 Oct
'19
9:14 a.m.
It was called teletext despite the implications, at least here in
Canada.? People just couldn't get their tongue around NAPLPS!
It looks just like the teletext systems I worked on, maybe ours was
better than yours?
cheers,
Nigel
On 20/10/2019 06:43, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:23:46PM -0400, Nigel
Johnson via cctalk wrote:
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Judging by the year, it was probably a teletext
terminal. [...]
It's not Teletext, unless that word means something different
on the other side
of the Pond. Teletext was basically a text system (the hint's in the name) with
graphics (and indeed colour) being a weird hack that gave it a particular
appearance, especially in typical implementations which used the SAA5050
character generator chip.
The palette and colour fringing suggest Apple II to me.