Teletext Archive now online

Over 65,000 teletext pages now online courtesy of the Teletext Archaeologist

There are over 65,000 pages from 61 entire teletext services in the online archive just now - the *entire* archive consists of over 2,000 recoveries & most will be added over time....as well as ongoing recoveries from hundreds of tapes yet to do! https://t.co/hbqXMZwLXM pic.twitter.com/KFv74fhEEo

— The Teletext Archaeologist (@grim_fandango) April 29, 2020

What an amazing resource, although currently very popular and therefore not working that well

Cool!

Must be some interesting stuff in there. Will have a look when the load drops.

Its very good indeed.

It even has some glimpses of the much fabled Televox voice controlled teletext service:

https://archive.teletextarchaeologist.org/Pages/Details/27336

https://archive.teletextarchaeologist.org/Pages/Details/27348

Including evidence that it out stayed its welcome and still had a bit of a presence 10 days after it presumably should have gone:
https://archive.teletextarchaeologist.org/Pages/Details/78448

Something that presumably is indicating the status of something:

https://archive.teletextarchaeologist.org/Pages/Details/96080
(from Oracle, 1986) - whatever "Air Call Teletext" is!

In fact the slightly garbled page 700 seems to suggest its something to do with finance?

Air Call was discussed on here a while back. It was data broadcasting. They used the VBI for sending data to companies such as dodgy credit card numbers.

They changed their name to Data Broadcasting International


https://www.cbronline.com/news/air_call_teletext_changes_its_name_to_data_broadcasting_to_reflect_new_role/

They won the license for data broadcasting on Channel 4, beating Sky
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/bskyb-subsidiary-denied-franchise-decision-reversed-on-bid-for-tv-text-service-1449290.html/
That went to judicial review but they won:
http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/cs2/29.htm
The company was wound up in 2015

Of course, as you can tell from the "TVS" in the header, the real purpose of the following page is giving the location of the TVS Archive:

https://archive.teletextarchaeologist.org/Pages/Details/96084

Ah hah! So that's where it is! Bingo!
TV Forum day out trip maybe?