videotex | text-mode.org

2013-03-24

1980s, 1983, telidon, terminal, usa, videotex.

◊

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.

2013-03-21

1980s, telidon, videotex.

◊

Telidon — ‘knowledge at your fingertips!’ (1981) CBC – Watch it here

2013-03-20

1980s, magazine, Teledata, videotex.

◊

Videotex article in the swedish magazine ‘Mikrodatorn’ nº5 (1983)

2013-03-18

1980s, videotex, viditel.

◊

Viditel was a Dutch videotex standard, launched in 1980. With a special vidimodem and a homecomputer, you reached out in the world in teletext style. There were about 30,000 users. More info here and here.

2013-03-13

1980s, petscii, RTTY, tools, videotex, viditel.

◊

Obscure C64 textmode software from 83/84. Microtel 600 was for videotex (Viditel in the Netherlands) and telesoftware (software that you download through teletext). Com-In seems to be for radio communication (RTTY) and other things. The software at the top (PA3ASM) is some sort of assembler or machine code monitor?

Pics from here. Thanks to Akira for the suggestion.

2013-03-06

1980s, 1986, canada, telidon, videotex.

◊

Some teletext/videotex standards offer more than alphanumerical characters. Like the Canadian Telidon, which used vector graphics. These are Telidon images, made by Jacques Palumbo in 1986.

Meanwhile in Japan, videotex was more complex: it was alphaphotographic. That is a combination of text and hi-res photos. It supposedly worked like a fax machine for the TV. See Captain.

2013-03-05

1980s, comic, telidon, terminal, videotex.

◊

: Nancy Reagan Takes the Subway. Telidon graphics by Maria Manhattan, 1982

“Nancy Reagan Takes the Subway”, an interactive comic strip by Maria Manhattan produced at the Alternate Media Center at NYU in 1982 with the Norpak Telidon terminal.

2012-12-15

teletel, videotex.

◊

Les Telecartes de BRUNO91

2012-10-20

1980s, 1982, advertising, prestel, uk, videotex.

◊

Going online, 1982 Prestel style. via

2012-09-23

1970s, 1978, advertising, canada, print, telidon, videotex.

◊

Telidon (1978) was a Canadian videotex service with both text and vector graphics. It could be used for mass communication on TV, or two-way communication using modems. Telidon required more complex decoding than its competitors, normally using Z80 or 6809 processors. Via.

text-mode.org

Text graphics: ASCII, PETSCII and its distant relatives.

Tag Archives: videotex