Date   : Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:08:41 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Teletext receiver revisited

On 26/11/2009, Storer, Darren <darren.storer@...> wrote:
> Hi Rob,

Eekss... he's found me!!

>
> I don't suppose that you remember the occasion when you sent me a series of
> frame grabs from BBC1 via a modem and in the opposite direction, I sent you
> the corresponding teletext subtitles (from a Morley teletext adapter)? Using
> this crude method, we watched Wonder Woman (at different locations) on green
> screen monitors. It couldn't have been later than 1984.

Cor, you're raising the dust from the old brain matter there!  That
was a Looong time ago!  I was still a teenager..   1984 sounds about
the latest it might be; I was down in London not long after that.
That green screen monitor was an old terminal I found in a junk shop
that had a composite video input... coupled to the Beeb via a VHS
recorder that meant I could also watch telly on it!  (Add an old Hifi
amp/radio receiver that I got at a jumble sale, and I at least had a
decent sound ,..)


I really must send you back those discs I borrowed ... after I've
watched the pictures again ...!