There is a sceptre haunting USA…
The Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal (1983), via.
Tag Archives: 1980s
Electra teletext service (1980s-1993) was America’s answer to the British Ceefax or ORACLE systems, providing news headlines, weather, entertainment/lifestyle info, and other information. Electra used the World System Teletext (WST) protocol, the same protocol used by other teletext services in the rest of the European continent.
LOC BLOCs was a plastic block construction toy set.They were marketed in the 1970s and 1980s by Entex Industries,
Kapla is a wooden block construction toy for children and adults, developed around 1988 by Tom van der Bruggen.
Environment Canada Weather Channel using the alphageometrical videotex protocol Telidon. From the mid 1980s. Thanks to Frederic Cambus for sharing.
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Page from Snapshots by Mary Beams. Made with Norpak Telidon terminal in the early 80s. Image from the article Graphics Artistry On Line in BYTE Magazine 1983-07.