ceefax Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/ceefax/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:50:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png ceefax Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/ceefax/ 32 32 146320098 We See Facts: The BBC’s Ceefax Teletext Service http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/09/we-see-facts-the-bbcs-ceefax-teletext-service/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/09/we-see-facts-the-bbcs-ceefax-teletext-service/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:49:20 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1714 In the 1960s, the BBC experimented with the idea of broadcasting a newspaper to hard-copy printers in homes during the early hours of the morning. It worked by rasterising (converting into lines) text, sending it [more...]

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