Date   : Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:10:01 +0000
From   : joel@... (Joel Rowbottom)
Subject: Prestel

--On 20 January 2009 07:54:55 +0000 Alex Taylor <zeem.uk@...> 
wrote:

> 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.

I think some B&O televisions had a facility to print out teletext pages - a 
little thermal printer was fitted below the speaker!


jx