Introducing the Telstar Videotex Service

Описание: If you have a BBC Microcomputer and a Prestel Adapter or perhaps a Sinclair Spectrum and Prism VTX5000 and you want to relive the excitement of the communications revolution that started a decade before the internet, then this video is for you.

The TELSTAR videotex system, provides a simple viewdata/videotext platform similar to those that were prevalent during the 1980s such as Prestel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel).

The aim of the system is to provide a Viewdata experience for anyone who is interested in how things 'used to be'. Services in the past typically provided access via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) connection and this is indeed how Telstar works, however, Telstar also makes use of a simple internet connection for modern internet modems.

The service can be accessed using a traditional V23 modem or an internet modem in conjunction with a home computer. In the case of the BBC Microcomputer, Acorn's Prestel adapter can be used. In addition access can be gained from from a PC or Mobile device using Richard T Russell's BBC Basic for SDL 2.0 or Matrix Brandy BASIC V for Linux.

The video demonstrates how to connect a BBC Micro, a Sinclair Specrum and a Tandata Terminal to the Telstar Videotex Service using both a WiModem232 (see link below) and also a traditiona V23 dial up modem.

With special thanks to Mackenzie Rough for allowing me to use the Prestel Sequences from his YouTube channel:    / mackenzierough  
Prestel Advert:    • Prestel Teletext Service.TV Commercial  

Links

Wimodem 232: https://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.p...
Sinclair Spectrum Next: https://www.specnext.com/
NexTel: https://www.spectrumnextgames.uk/nxtel
Tetrachloromethane (CCL4): http://fish.ccl4.org/java/

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