Tag Archives: 1985

South Africa’s teletext service, Teledata, which apparently had an effective crime fighting section. Teledata was launched in 1985 and not well updated after 1999. The last weather screen was still there in 2014… Images from a post by Carin Bevan.

New Zealand teletext caught in a bad moment, probably 1985. See the full video.

By Karl Kempton and Loris Essary. Selections from WIRED, made with typewriter and letraset 1985-1986, according to RENEGADE.

Other Kempton works here.

Entries from the PETSCII competition arranged by the German magazine 64’er in 1985. Jet by M. Trenz (Manfred Trenz?), Sandra by D. Reimann, Schiff by J. Börck, VW Golf by A. König, Stilleben by E. Hellmann, White House by C. Engelhardt, Raucher by D. Tschöpe.

from c64-wiki.de via Christian Gleinsner in PETSCII WORLD.

Reabracadabra, an animated Minitel piece by Eduardo Kac from 1985. It was recently restored and Rhizome is now showing it online in Net Art Anthologies. Accompanied by a text by Goto80.

Menu for a collection of cracking tools for C64, 1985. Kattens reviderade cracking disk. Download.

ZEPLIS (PiO 1985年7月号掲載) for MZ-700

Plotter drawing by Günther Schulz, 1985, via..

מבט ספורט – הפתיח עם הנקודות (Mbat sport – the opening). In case of dead link:

Teletext roundup ● Modcomp Profile ● US Videotext Scene

Could’ve been a demo party, but it’s the North American Videotex, 1985.