[BBC-Micro] CEEFAX short story contest

[Gordon JC Pearce]

>>
>> I'm still not sure what was used server-side to construct and hold
>> teletext pages either (fro BBC's Ceefax or others); likely a DEC mini of
>> some sort - BBC machines for page composition?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Jules

I saw a thing once which was apparently a Prestel/Teletext page 
composer.  From memory (and bear in mind I was probably about 9 or 10 at 
the time) it was a 19" rack with eurocards in it, a colour monitor on 
top and a very odd keyboard with lots of extra symbols engraved on the 
fronts of the keys.  I do remember that they did things in conjunction 
with the <CTRL> key - R had a crosshatch symbol, and <CTRL-R> produced a 
character grid on the screen (and made the monitor make an ear-piercing 
howl!).

I wish I could remember more about it.  The guy who owned it was a 
friend of my late father's, who was very into amateur radio and 
computers.  IIRC he was called Martin Wheeler, and he moved to Australia 
to farm crocodiles or something.

Gordon.