media what died a'bornin'

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From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon_at_gjcp.net>
Date: Fri Oct 8 21:24:07 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.
Received on Fri Oct 08 2004 - 21:24:07 BST

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