Date   : Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:54:55 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Prestel

2009/1/19 Andrew Hancock <andrew.hancock@...>:
> We had a Sony Trintron TV (which I through out last year, because Tube
> finally died), which we used to connect to Prestel in the 80s (1979-1984),
> it had a Viewdata/Prestel adaptor built into the TV which terminated in a
> very large "phone jack", which took BT in the day ages to connect to the
> telephone line, and it was hardwired.

I remember an episode of The Price is Right, when I was quite small,
in which one of the prizes was something similar to the above (or it
may just have been Teletext) - but it included a small printer for
taking copies of the pages! I thought that was utterly amazing at the
time (I think I must have been about 5 or 6 years old), but that's the
only time I've ever heard mention of them, let alone seen one.

-- 
Alex Taylor