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Date   : Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:50:06 +0100
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Viewdata stuff

Rob wrote:
> Downloading was approached in various ways. I quite liked the way the
> Speccy vtx5000 did it  - it downloaded into program memory. You could
> drop out of the ROM terminal and run it right off!

You could do that on the Beeb. There was a "download to PAGE" function
in the teletext terminal, and some comms terminals had the same.

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J.G.Harston - jgh@...      - mdfs.net/jgh
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