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    Dear Ceefax....

    BBC News - Ceefax: A love letter

    I used to remember every Saturday watching the football score and results "in picture" while watching something else, I'm gonna shed a tear when it finally goes completely too.
    Last edited by SimonMac; 18 April 2012, 09:08.
    Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
    I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

    I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

    #2
    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    BBC News - Ceefax: A love letter

    I used to remember every Saturday watching the football score and results "in picture" while watching something else, I'm gonna shed a tear when it finally goes completely too.
    Is that deer as in expensive or deer as in "Bambi"?

    Just asking, like.

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      #3
      Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
      Is that deer as in expensive or deer as in "Bambi"?

      Just asking, like.
      As in oh deer I have fat fingers!
      Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
      I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

      I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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        #4
        I miss it too. It was so simple. Hit the text button on your remote then 101 for news and 301 for sport.

        The red button doesn't do it for me :

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          #5
          Ceefax is the reason BBC journalists have to limit their headlines to 33 characters max: BBC - The Editors: Changing headlines but, as that technology is phased out, they have to continue to do so to cater for mobile devices.

          Many years ago I worked on the embedded software for Teletext transmission systems. It was written in Forth for the most part; a lot of the boxes were 6809 based and so used 6809 ASM for stuff like the interrupt handler to stuff the FIFO output buffer when the VBI came around.

          That company was also the creator of full-field Teletext, where the entire frame was used, allowing for faster page turnaround: those systems were installed in just about every railway station and airport in the land, and also abroad. A mate of mine wrote the system for Dublin Airport, which then ran 24/7/365 for at least three-and-a-half years without a single error - after that he left the company so doesn't know if it ever errored before being decommissioned

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            #6
            Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
            Ceefax is the reason BBC journalists have to limit their headlines to 33 characters max: BBC - The Editors: Changing headlines but, as that technology is phased out, they have to continue to do so to cater for mobile devices.

            Many years ago I worked on the embedded software for Teletext transmission systems. It was written in Forth for the most part; a lot of the boxes were 6809 based and so used 6809 ASM for stuff like the interrupt handler to stuff the FIFO output buffer when the VBI came around.

            That company was also the creator of full-field Teletext, where the entire frame was used, allowing for faster page turnaround: those systems were installed in just about every railway station and airport in the land, and also abroad. A mate of mine wrote the system for Dublin Airport, which then ran 24/7/365 for at least three-and-a-half years without a single error - after that he left the company so doesn't know if it ever errored before being decommissioned
            FTFY
            Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
            I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

            I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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              #7
              Ceefax designer has the last laugh with a farewell image of a... on Twitpic

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                #8
                Do you not notice where it says Teletext at the top?
                Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
                I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

                I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
                  Do you not notice where it says Teletext at the top?
                  Ceefax (phonetic for "See Facts") is the BBC's teletext information service transmitted via the analogue signal, started in 1974 and run until April 2012
                  Confusion is a natural state of being

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Diver View Post
                    Ceefax (phonetic for "See Facts") is the BBC's teletext information service transmitted via the analogue signal, started in 1974 and run until April 2012
                    Yes I know the difference, I was just commenting the fact that it wasn't a Ceefax designer, it was Teletext, IIRC the picture is also about 10 years old as Digitiser ended in 2003
                    Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
                    I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

                    I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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