Tag Archives: 1980s

A teletext game for the BBC Micro called Flowers of Crystal (1984). Great intro!

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Typerformance (1983)

HAL3100, an electronic RTTY terminal from ca 1980. These machines are sometimes called RATTs. According to Wikipedia, the primary users of RTTY today are diplomats and miliatires, since it is such a robust technology. Let’s hope they still use this HAL-model!

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Alighiero e Boetti, Alternando da 1 a 100 e viceversa, 1983

Scanned from Alighiero e Boetti, L’opera ultima. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma, 1996.

Prestel, 1984. Here you can view the graphics as text.

Eduardo Kac, Tesão, 1985/86 – Videotex (minitel) animated poem.

TV ads for the Viewtron videotex service by Knight-Ridder and AT&T, 1983-1986.

More Viewtron posts

Article by Petter Moshus about videotex (Teledata) in the Norwegian magazine PC Mikrodata.

When François Mitterrand was elected president in France 1981, they revealed it with a Minitel animation slowly drawing this portrait line by line.

Ad for Datavision, the Swedish videotex service. From the magazine VIC rapport, issue 3, 1984.