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From: makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: TeleTex/VideoTex to ASCII
Summary: Anyone hear about it being done ?
Keywords: TeleTex VideoTex TV ASCII
Message-ID: <963@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 26 Jun 89 23:22:19 GMT
Reply-To: makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Organization: Grand Hall of Justice, Mega-City One
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I've been thinking about an interesting project: building a "modem" for
transferring the TeleTex/VideoTex information sent between the television
picture frames into a computer.
I have obtained some spec sheets of chips to do this, of some demodulator
circuits etc. but I am stuck because the decoder chips are basically mask
ROM-programmed microprocessors for use inside a television -- therefore
almost useless for this stuff.
I would NOT like to start from scratch, so -- ideas, anyone ?

Otto J. Makela, University of Jyvaskyla
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