On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 12:14:53PM -0400, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: > It was called teletext despite the implications, at least here in > Canada. People just couldn't get their tongue around NAPLPS!
More widely known as Telidon despite it being called NAPLPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telidon Friend of mine worked at one of the commercial companies (NORPAK) doing it. Incidentally, they used a lot of 6809 systems running OS-9. > > It looks just like the teletext systems I worked on, maybe ours was > better than yours? > > cheers, > > Nigel > > > On 20/10/2019 06:43, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:23:46PM -0400, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: > >> Judging by the year, it was probably a teletext terminal. [...] > > It's not Teletext, unless that word means something different on the other > > side > > of the Pond. Teletext was basically a text system (the hint's in the name) > > with > > graphics (and indeed colour) being a weird hack that gave it a particular > > appearance, especially in typical implementations which used the SAA5050 > > character generator chip. > > > > The palette and colour fringing suggest Apple II to me. > > > > > -- > Nigel Johnson > MSc., MIEEE > VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU > > Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! > > > You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 > > If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday > > This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from > me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any > number of system administrators along the way. > Nigel Johnson <nw.john...@ieee.org> > > > Please consider the environment when deciding if you really need to print > this message > > -- - d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
