media what died a'bornin'

Gordon JC Pearce gordon at gjcp.net
Fri Oct 8 21:24:07 CDT 2004


Tony Duell wrote:

> Interesting thing : The page number is a 3 digit BCD number, but nowhere 
> in the hardware are the invald BCD nybbles (1010..1111) ever prohibited. 
> Pages with such numbers can't be selected on a normal TV, but can be 
> decoded and displayed by a computer-controller teletext decoder. And such 
> pagesd certainly exist...

What's on them?

Gordon.



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