Subj : Re: first computers
To   : BRIAN J MARTIN
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Tue Jan 10 2023 01:20 pm

Oh That's awesome brian

yea it worked the same pretty much as normular teletext did... you could punch
in a page number on the keyboard etc and it would load said page off the disk.

nothing spectaular, but was written on an RM480Z originally and ran on the
schools micronet network in the computer lab.

as for the beeb itself.. i've been trying to get my hands on one for years but
they're proving difficult to find someone that would ship to the states.

as for bbs software i have no idea to be honest.

good luck in getting the viewdata project going i look forward to hearing more.
as for visiting, i'm hoping to com over later on this year so maybe..... i can
find something.

i'm still trying to get my dads friend to give me his complete setup.. he has
almost everything that was ever made for the things.

Charlie

-=> BRIAN J MARTIN wrote to Charles Blackburn <=-

 BJM> Teletext emulator WOW, sounds like you were quite the Whizz kid
 BJM> Charles. That sounds extremely interesting have you seen what the guys
 BJM> who created TEEFAX have done recently and their Vbit2 software on the
 BJM> Pi. it sounds like you were decades ahead of them if I understand you
 BJM> correctly. What they have now used the Pi to get some use out of the
 BJM> old Teletext adaptors that are around. Often they come up on Ebay. Vbit
 BJM> is I think the only way to get much fun out of them these days. I am
 BJM> typing this from my BBC Master, I also have my original ModelB. I am
 BJM> using a RPi with TCPSER as a wimodem to log on. I am trying to get a
 BJM> viewdata BBS built myselF but finding any working BBS software for the
 BJM> Beeb is proving impossible. Some programs exist they just dont work
 BJM> with Hayes modems. A former purveyor of BBS software is trying to get
 BJM> me something though so I am hopeful I will have a small night time dial
 BJM> up Viewdata BBS available in 2023. Hopefully you can visit.

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