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In about 1984-85, TV channel 36 (KICU) was transmitting Teletext in the San Francisco area, and maybe one other station as well here. Dick Smith Electronics had some stores in the USA at that time, and they had a teletext decoder kit for US$100, I remember.
Also at that time, I worked in San Francisco Airport, and there were a few video kiosks where you could see airport information, weather information, and maybe other data. This information was Teletext data, and you could call up specific pages on the keypad if you knew their number from on screen. You might have to wait 10-15 seconds or more for your page to appear from the Teletext data stream.
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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