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Some interesting videos from the BT Film Archive -
An Introduction to Prestel - How it will be the answer to everything!
Prestel Innovations - Some of the planned extensions to the standard - Prextend, Picture Prestel, and Gateway. Only the last of these got implemented in the live service.

Me, logging into Prestel, checking my emails, and browsing the chatlines.
(Data recorded on a BBC Micro, 1988, and reconstituted 2015!)
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Prestel advert 2/4 from 1980:

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BBC The Computer Programme 1982 #08
Chris Searle demonstrating email via Prestel, 1982

Making the Most of the Micro - Prestel - 1983
Mac demonstrating more services, and booking seats at the Barbican..

And for those of you wanting a closer look at some of the pages featured in these last two videos:

 P R E S T E L                          
 GOOD EVENING     SAT 16 JAN 1982 20:23 
 THE COMPUTER PROGRAMME                 
          ENTERPRISE COMPUTER           
 NEW MESSAGES FOR YOU,KEY *930#         
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
 ***************************************
 ***************** ***** ***************
 ******* *********  ** * ********* *****
 *****************  **** *  ****** *****
 ***************************************
                                        
                                        
    YOU LAST USED THIS COMPUTER         
    ON SAT 16 JAN 1982 AT 20:22         
                                        
                                        
 KEY # TO CONTINUE

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Thanks to Ant for finding the videos and recreating the pages for you.

NBC "Telefuture" from 1980 - An American program about the future of information on your TV set, but with a small section about the British Teletext and viewdata services. See if you can spot the Noughts-and-crosses; the Prestel main indexes are easier noticed.

Celebrating the Viewdata Revolution.

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