Byte High no Limit

In the early 1970s Mort was the first BBC news Sub Editor to work on the new service called CEEFAX. He moved to the USA to start Chicago's Keyfax and then later returned to Blighty to run C4's upstart service 4TEL     I was privileged to speak with M...

Russia 1991, the Soviet Union is collapsing, A chance meeting with engineers at a Moscow TV tower results in Steve becoming in charge Russia's first teletext services. Steve explains his love for the medium and shares his recollections of running a t...

Ian shares with us stories of how he became the last editor of Ceefax before is merger with the BBC web based service. Sport was one of the most popular services on Ceefax and there are a few tales of sackings of Football managers and match winners t...

Graham worked at CEEFAX at the beginning of the 1990s and was given the opportunity to run a new teletext service for commercial TV just after the biggest shake up of television regulations in the UK at the time. He explains how he manged to get the ...

In this episode, we find out how Jason developed a way of restoring lost teletext from tape,  how he found long lost services and a curious Audio service that was hidden in plain sight from millions of UK television viewers.   If you want to support ...

Dan's interest in teletext art was a spring board for many other artists who have adopted this medium to express their artwork long after it's greatly exaggerated demise. Part of the 'TeletextR' movement, he has been instrumental in the high profile ...

The Teletext revival is a shop window, but without the goods in the stock room nothing can happen. Alistair's ZX Net Teletext editor and online Viewers have been the glue that enables artists, archivists and new services to make their concepts a real...

Paul Rose is a BAFTA nominated  writer for Children's TV and also writes for Mainstream Adult audience programming. He is fondly remembered and held in high regard for his work on Teletext Ltd's Digitiser Magazine as Mr Biffo which he launched 30 yea...

In her glittering career, Sara Scott-Rivers worked extensively with both Viewdata and teletext.  Following designer-editor roles with Prestel in the 1980s, she joined Teletext Ltd prior to its launch in 1993.   Sara was kind enough to share her recol...

Oracle's Buzz! Magazine was the first  tech, teen culture and music magazine of it's kind. It's interactive nature was a major influence on many  that viewed the electronic magazine one who went on to make services themselves! (Mr Biffo- see previous...