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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                        0p
                                        
                    P                   
                                        
                 P  R  E                
                                        
              P  R  E  S  T             
                                        
           P  R  E  S  T  E  L          
                                        
              E  S  T  E  L             
                                        
                 T  E  L                
                                        
                    L                   
             KIPLING COMPUTER           
                                        
       ***************************      
       *  THANK YOU FOR CALLING  *      
       *                         *      
       *    PLEASE CALL AGAIN    *      
       ***************************      
                                        
   Replace receiver, then key #

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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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