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Bernard Cribbins Presents Prestel - The Post Office Viewdata Service (youtu.be)

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Bernard Cribbins give us an introduction to Prestel.With thanks to @citifax for the recording, and @2019Casandro for the decoding.Played back here using R.T....

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[–] SanguineBrah 3 points 2 years ago

Shoutout to John Newcombe's live viewdata service, Telstar. Instructions on how to connect from various platforms are on his website. I often dial in with my BBC Micro to catch the latest news headlines.