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	A user's view of Prestel.
		Prestel is run by the British post office, known as British Telecom, which also runs the telephone system in the U.K. Over 900 organizations contribute information to the 230,000-page Prestel database.
		In Europe, Prestel communication uses the CCITT V.23 format, an asymmetrical system in which the pages are transmitted to the user at 1200 bps, but typed responses from the user are received at only 75 bps (still a fast typing speed).
		And since Prestel already has the lead in quality of service and range of information available from any electronic publishing service, it just might be that with continued research and development supported by the British government, the enhanced information system of the future might also be called Prestel.
	www.atarimagazines.com /creative/v9n5/123_A_users_view_of_Prestel.php (2660 words)

	Prestel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prestel, the brand name for the Post Office's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979.
		Prestel Online, which was an Internet service provider spinoff, was sold to Scottish Telecom, and as of 5 June 2002, has since been merged into their other ISP activities.
		The Prestel technology was also sold abroad to several countries, and in 1984 Prestel won a UK Queen's Award for Industry both for its innovative technology and use of British products (it largely ran on equipment provided by GEC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prestel (907 words)

	HARDWARE FEATURE
		Prestel 'sets' were expensive, and the amount of information available on the database was too limited to offer much of an advantage over an ordinary newspaper.
		The number is issued by Prestel via Micronet and is the one by which you are charged, so do not let anyone else have the number or they could incur large bills which you would have to pay.
		Prestel has more information in it, as it has been operating longer, and information on airlines, railways, jobs, clubs, theatres in any area of the country could be very useful if you want to make a reservation.
	www.worldofspectrum.org /hardware/feat24.html (2844 words)

	Prestel On-Line - Conditions of Use (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Prestel On-line reserves the right to suspend or cancel any account at its sole discretion disconnect any Customer Apparatus in the event that a Customer does not fulfil its obligations under this Agreement.
		Prestel On-line accepts no liability for any use the customer makes of the services, for any charges that the customer may incur with any third party.
		7.6 Prestel On-line shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever caused by any failure to perform any obligations under this contract if such failure is caused by or attributable to events, acts or omissions beyond its control, including the acts or omissions of other telecommunications providers.
	www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk /grayling/startup/t_cs.htm (1288 words)

	Sinclair User 1 - Prestel
		The information transmitted by a Prestel computer is a series of 10-bit binary codes - a start bit, seven data bits, an even parity bit and a stop bit.
		Although the data processing feature was much talked about in the early days of Prestel it was dropped quietly as the system was brought into regular service, because it tied up too much computer power.
		The move by British Telecom to initiate the development of a ZX-81 adaptor is in parallel with its other attempts to enlist the help of personal computer enthusiasts to bootstrap the telesoftware concept.
	www.sincuser.co.uk /001/prestel.htm (1305 words)

	Prestel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Prestel, the Post Office's viewdata service, links TV set, telephone, and computer to provide instant access, in home or office, to more than 150,000 pages of advice and information.
		They are cheaper than Prestel, but their capacity is much smaller (hundreds of pages instead of hundreds of thousands) and they are purely one-way, towards the viewer; Prestel works in two directions.
		Prestel was invented by Sam Fedida at the Post Office's research centre, which has carried out the subsequent development jointly with the Post Office's Data Processing Executive.
	www.crowsnest.co.uk /prestel/index.htm (918 words)

	Prestel and its successors
		Some Local Authorities were quick to see the potential of PRESTEL as a means of publishing community information: names like Kingtel and Herts 288 come flooding back to memory as examples of this Golden Age of pioneers.
		The subsequent demise of PRESTEL and the overwhelming success of its French counterpart, Teletel, are matters of history.
		It was the failure of the PRESTEL home market to leave the ground, together with the high cost of hosting and providing access to information on the service, that led the Local Authorities to seek alternative means of hosting their community viewdata services.
	www.partnerships.org.uk /articles/saphhire.html (1185 words)

	Prestel Protocol
		Prestel (or Videotex) is a simple terminal protocol, in use in parts of Europe for more than 10 years.
		The width of a Prestel screen is 40 columns, the height is 24 rows.
		Prestel terminals use a cursor position to define where the next received character should be placed on the screen.
	utopia.knoware.nl /users/eprebel/Communication/Prestel (603 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 6: Issue 74
		After noting a little judicious editing, Prestel was faced with the awful truth: it's security division had said that the hacker problem had been resolved, yet pages were being changed again under their noses.
		Prestel recognised what we had done, and that we hadn't done anything stupid such as altering or deleting pages on the database.
		Prestel IDs (as passwords) were assuming the same level of security as train numbers.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/6.74.html (3028 words)

	Richard A. Bartle: NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Prestel and Micronet are both denying that any decision has been made, the former though conceded that the appearance of
		Despite these denials, insiders absolutely insist that MUSE is in the process of transferring the game for use by Prestel.
		If it was to be taken on by Prestel and Micronet the game would be available to thousands of users.
	www.mud.co.uk /richard/ncefeb89.htm (223 words)

	historical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Prestel offers a bulletin board service where calls are charged at a local rate in the UK phone 014837 83908.
		It is necessary here to set up an icon with Prestel's phone number and under the option 'Transfer, receive File' to designate the folder that you want the download to be placed in.
		It is necessary to then output the data from their software to your hard drive and then for the Downloader to append that data file.
	www.q-data.co.uk /datafeeds.htm (368 words)

	Prestel, Escher, Bach -- Hooper
		For the purposes of this paper, Prestel, British Telecom's first in the world videotex service, constitutes the "specific event," and recent changes in British telecommunications constitute the "class of events." I hope to show that changes within Prestel have been mirrored in changes within the British telecommunications landscape.
		Prestel in 1977/1978 adopted a common carrier policy, inspired by the use of that term, not in medieval road haulage, but by U.S. telecommunications regulation.
		Prestel is expected to provide one coherent service from jack sockets, through what appears on the screen, to the bill.
	users.primushost.com /~bcompain/BTMM624/Hooper.htm (2879 words)

	Exploring 'Prestel'.
		To carry out your research for the term prestel, checking out the Connected Earth website is recommended.
		This is a totally multi-media presentation, which gives you the power to choose from accessible stories, more in-depth study, pictures of artefacts in 3D, oral or written reminiscences from people who used to work in the telecommunications industry, short movies, and ingenious animations providing easy-to-understand explanations of the way that things work.
		Connected Earth is the right place to carry out your investigation of the subject prestel.
	www.connected-earth.com /content/prestel_online.html (295 words)

	ISPs unfazed by Prestel's 'fastest' claims - ZDNet UK
		Prestel's claim was made on the back of an independent study by BDO Stoy Hayward, measuring the access speeds of six big-name ISPs.
		The data shows Prestel's rivals averaging 58 per cent slower performance and awarded only AOL and Prestel with 100 per cent connect and download success rates.
		Prestel claims that the results show the firm's wisdom in going for raw speed by employing the latest hardware.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/0,1000000097,2063975,00.htm (461 words)

	UK Prestel Online ISP Opens Help Desk Newsbytes News Network - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Prestel Online, the Internet service provider (ISP), has announced the investment of UKP350,000 in a new help desk center.
		According to Prestel, out of this total investment, UKP250,000 has been ploughed into new premises and a state-of-the-art automated call distribution (ACD) system.
		We have recruited experts who are solely dedicated to dial-up Internet users with a wide range of complementary skills in different hardware and software platforms," he said, adding that the company's staff not only have extensive Internet knowledge, but the enthusiasm to communicate their knowledge to the customers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1997_Feb_12/ai_19112105 (288 words)

	mb21 - ether.net - Teletext Then and Now - Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Both broadcast teletext and the GPO's Prestel services are sources of a great variety of information which can be received and displayed on the television screen.
		Teletext uses a hitherto unused part of the television signal to send digitally-coded information through the air; Prestel sends similar information down the telephone line and then through a special adaptor into a television receiver.
		The two systems have been developing independently but do use a common way of presenting information on the screen; the microcomputer with add-on teletext and Prestel decoders may be the means of bringing the systems together in a powerful new way.
	teletext.mb21.co.uk /timeline/compbook82.shtml (453 words)

	Richard A. Bartle: Modems
		Some modems will only support the Prestel type of use, though it is much better to get one of the more flexible types.
		This sub-service on Prestel, called Micronet, is like a super-bulletin board with special interest groups, software, and magazine-like features and news.
		He also keeps a jam jar next to his computer and every time he uses it to dial up somewhere he puts a few pence in the jar so he doesn't get surprised by extraordinary phone bills at the end of the month.
	www.mud.co.uk /richard/cgaug86b.htm (1061 words)

	Rage Hard!
		Well okay, Prestel is an 'Online Videotex Service', which basically means that it connects your computer to a much larger mainframe through the phone lines, so your Speccy (or whatever) becomes a terminal of this other 'host' computer.
		Well, I've got a directory to Prestel here, and there are thousands of pages on hundreds of different subjects you can call up - there are separate pieces on most popular makes of car, for instance, as well as well-known countries and towns.
		Information is presented in a very similar way, but Prestel is far more flexible and allows you to do lots of things your TV could never manage.
	www.ysrnry.co.uk /articles/ragehard0790.htm (1729 words)

	PRESTEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Prestel was a dial-up service using a modem and a modified television set to view pages of text (and some pictures) rather like today's Teletext.
		However, Prestel was an interactive service, and was in essence an early form of Internet/ e-mail.
		"Prestel and the Prestel symbol are trademarks of the Post Office viewdata service"
	lightstraw.co.uk /ate/tass/prestel1.html (65 words)

	Prestel and Minitel
		As I recall, even the Council for Educational Technology, which was officially enthusiastically promoting Prestel, advertised conferences which had taken place months before.
		So Prestel died off, though not without leaving behind it a number of enthusiasts, who had glimpsed of the potential of on-line communication.
		However, it's worth saying that it didn't have to happen that way, as can be seen from the example of the French Minitel, which is a videotex system based on the same standard as that initially established in Britain.
	www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk /MUHome/cshtml/media/minitel.html (614 words)

	Prestel Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		And there are titles to suit every occasion, taste, and interest.
		Like all of Prestel's products, these "Minis" feature amazing artwork of all kinds, elegantly designed and packaged.
		Attractive, affordable, and adorable, these miniature versions of popular Prestel titles are perfect gifts.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Prestel (587 words)

	Amazon.com: Franz Marc: Tiere - Animals (Prestel Postcard Books): Books: Prestel Verlag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The publisher calls this a "postcard book." There are 18, each a print of Franz Marc's wonderful animal paintings, and each is detachable from the rest of the book, although I doubt you would really want to do that.
		The German publisher Prestel has put a lot into this little book, using very heavy paper stock as well as quality printing and binding.
		Kudos to Prestel for publishing almost 40 titles in this series of artists and movements.
	www.amazon.com /Franz-Marc-Animals-Prestel-Postcard/dp/3791318268 (688 words)

	Marie Catherine Prestel ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Marie Catherine Prestel, Three peasants and a child, woman delousing one of the men, 18th century
		Marie Catherine Prestel, Group of figures looking at sculpture of a lion, 18th century
		Marie Catherine Prestel, Man sitting on bench, two dogs at back of bench, 18th century
	www.wwar.com /masters/p/prestel-marie_catherine.html (969 words)

	Prestel on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		A working PRESTEL terminal at the science museum.
		The 'Telecommunications' exhibit hasn't been updated since about 1985, and is consequently very, very funny.
		There's a football quiz on this PRESTEL display which is also pretty amusing...
	flickr.com /photos/mildlydiverting/5065324 (226 words)

	ISBNs for prestel
		Haeckel was a passionate student of the evolutionary shaping of biological forms, and Art Forms in Nature captures both his artistic sensibility and the scientific rigor he applied to all his studies...
		Amazon.com description: Book Description: Prestel Minis Attractive, affordable and adorable, these miniature versions of popular Prestel titles and subjects are perfect gifts.
		Amazon.com description: Amazon.com: The painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is perhaps best known for the surreal compositions and expressionistic colors he used to convey his memories of the Russian Jewish village atmosphere of his childhood.
	www.isbn.nu /aisbn/prestel (1074 words)

	mathew's web site - tag prestel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It was briefly relevant during the 80s, but bulletin boards grew up around it, then began connecting together.
		The situation was farcical by the early 90s; UUCP was chugging along at 9600bps or faster, but PRESTEL was still 1200bps to receive your mail—or a mind-numbing 75bps to send it.
		Something similar happened in France with MiniTel, and I have no doubt that the same pattern would have been followed in the US if the USPS had been allowed to set up an e-mail system.
	meta.ath0.com /articles/tag/prestel (442 words)

	WELCOME TO PREST CABLE & SATELLITE TV SYSTEMS LIMITED (PRESTEL)
		It has compatibility for digital transfer of data, caller identification, call waiting, International Direct Dialling (IDD) among others.
		Prestel also offers other services like Broadband Internet, Satellite and Wireless Network Technologies.
		PRESTEL is among the first four Private Telephone Operators (PTO's) in Nigeria to be approved for NATIONAL UNIFIED ACCESS LICENSE
	prestelnig.com (133 words)

	Amazon.com: Vincent Van Gogh (Prestel Postcard Books): Books: Prestel Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Introducing Prestel Art Guides: attractive, affordable and authoritative.
		Enhanced with glossaries, bibliographies, and maps, the guides are printed on heavy, coated paper with a flexible cover that is durable enough to withstand repeated use.
		With this much information made accessible, Prestel’s new Art Guides are certain to be opened again and again.
	www.amazon.com /Vincent-Gogh-Prestel-Postcard-Books/dp/3791316176 (718 words)

	Board Game- Prestel Art Game
		The Prestel Art Game is an exciting way to learn about the world of art.
		Work out a strategy, take a gamble, laugh at some amusing facts, but don't try to take the other players for a ride.
		This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed in any form
	www.imageexchange.com /children/6079.shtml (59 words)

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