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• I remember Ceefax and Oracle well as I visited both production centres back in 1975. I even saw an episode of Coronation Street being Subtitled and the comment at teh time was the most difficult character to sub was Jean Alexander who played Hilda Ogden as she talked so fast and the sub had to be onscreen for a minimum of 4 seconds.
  
  I watched Teletext develop and although the internet and digital TV has now really replaced what Teletext can offer its a great British Invention.
  
  Of course we then had an extended development of Video Text in 1983, the BT Prestel Interactive system. And in Birmingham we had the first interactive Shopping online so to speak through a partnership with the Birmingham Post and Mail and Carefore Hypermarket to buy our groceries through the Club 403 system and have them delivered to our home. As Prestel proved expensive Club 403 was setup to provide Prestel access at a fixed monthly price through a uncharged dialup number.
  
  I was on the consumer panel for Club 403 as I appeared to be a heavy user and enjoyed many perks like Wine, Food hampers etc for my thoughts.
  
  The Prestel access servers if I can recall properly that we connected to was Enterprise which looked after basic email, Keatss, Byron, Duke was a central updating server, Dryden cant remember others but at the time all this was fascinating to me.
  
  Oh such memories brought back just by you mentioning the demise of Teletext. Posted by Dave Cresswell, United Kingdom
• so farewell to TV's teletext
  home to cheap hols, news and views
  for years you were the IT best
  but now... searching for p307... searching for p307... searching f Posted by Michael, UK