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Article #625670Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Elliott Roper
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:17
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:17
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On 22 Aug 2018, Andy Leighton wrote (in article <slrnpnq7iq...@azaal.plus.com>): > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:32:53 +0100, Elliott Roper<nos...@yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > On 21 Aug 2018, Andy Leighton wrote > > (in article <slrnpnnrv...@azaal.plus.com>): > > > > > > Teletext was also widely used in travel agents (usually over X.25) to > > > access tour operator sites to book holidays. That has disappeared > > > completely. > > > > That was Teletex (no final t) a different animal entirely. An ITU standard > > that was hoped to be a successor to telex at one time > > No. It was viewdata (just a specific implementation of Videotext/Teletext) > over X.25. I worked at Thomas Cook and dealt with it extensively, both on > the X.25 comms level and writing code which sat in front of the > viewdata systems driving them and screen-scraping stuff. Crikey! Mea culpa. I worked on Teletex and travel agent concentrators about the same time and conflated the two in the belief that nobody would use teletext for work. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
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