Date   : Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:14:53 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Teletext / Viewdata / Prestel people

LOL..I remember that one.  I always did think the displays looked very
BBC Micro..

Not really viewdata unfortunately, but as Ian says, it would be nice
to see what the back-end looked like..

On 15/06/2009, Ian Wolstenholme <bbcmailinglist@...> wrote:
> Found it:
>
> http://bbcmicro.net/old-8bs/seemisc.htm
> http://bbcmicro.net/old-8bs/see/dohtrain.jpg
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian Wolstenholme [mailto:bbcmailinglist@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:59:53 +0100
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Teletext / Viewdata / Prestel people
>
> The railway station picture used to be on 8BS.  I think Hull station might
> still be
> using Beebs, it looked very much like it when I was last there, although
> that was
> October 2007.
>
> I would be very interested to know more about this system, the setup they
> use or used and the software which runs it.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Benham [mailto:adsb@...]
> To: robert@...
> Cc: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:01:20 +0100
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Teletext / Viewdata / Prestel people
>
> Rob wrote:
>> British Rail had their own viewdata system available via a gateway
>> from Prestel with train times and whatnot on it.
>
> I can't find it on the interweb at the moment, but someone had
> a picture taken at a British station of a monitor above a
> platform that was displaying
>
> BBC Computer 32K
>
> Acorn 1770 DFS
>
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>
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