Tag Archives: 1980s

Pinky was a hobbyist Minitel micro server, 1986-1992. It received around 30,000 calls. It ran on Atari ST and Telestrat.

Screens from Granny’s Garden (BBC Micro, 1983). It appears to be completely in teletext, which the BBC Micro supported.

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.