Byte High no Limit
Podcasts about Peoples relationships with technology, teletext, old Arcades and whatever else. Social History of technology, not always obvious.
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Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
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 that the blocky medium enjoys today in the media.
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Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
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.
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Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Ian Irving was one the medium's first ever recognised artist and is cited as a contemporary of many pixel artists who used the format.
Ian tells us his story of working at Ceefax then moving to Intelfax and 4-Tel.
Ian also worked on a ground breaking project for deaf children 'Hands Up!' on Channel four was a completely unique programme that can be viewed on YouTube.
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Saturday Nov 12, 2022
Saturday Nov 12, 2022
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 service going and make a success of it, then foresee the trouble coming down the pipe from non- broadcast competition and the attempts to adapt.
today Graham is a media consultant and can be reached at www.lovelace.co.uk
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Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
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 that would not of occurred had it not been for Ceefax.
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Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
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 teletext system during volatile times of the Eastern Bloc.
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Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
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 Mort and Julie to record their experiences working at all these teletext services.
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Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunspot Stories is the series where I recall the people, history & machines of my favourite arcade. This Episode I revisit Gremlin's Depthcharge and look into its gameplay.
Byte High No Limit
A pod series that covers the history of my favourite childhood arcade, the origin, the people and the machines.
Also the future of the site now the Arcade is gone.
Also the Teletext people series, where we speak to the people who made the UK's first TV info system work and others who now keep it's historic legacy going.
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