#telidon — Public Fediverse posts

So further to yesterday's query, that thing in that government office was not quite a computer, and not on the Internet, but rather a terminal of a network called #Telidon which apparently you could get a machine (I suppose it would've been a computer of sorts) with which you could dial in from anywhere and view it on your TV.

Not surprising at all that the 70s Canadian gov got into some funky homegrown tech. Had I known it was possible for us to have this at home, I probably would've been insufferable about it, but I did get a C64 a number of years later, it was for he best.

Anyways, here's a video about the artists that created for Telidon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjMUe7hkwRs

#Retro #Canada #70s

@jdd I knew I should have picked these up when I saw them in A-1 Surplus in 2018
#telidon #norpak

Does anyone know of any #NAPLPS #videotex revival projects, server POCs, or compatible BBSes out there? I thought I had heard of a project based around #Telidon or #Viewtron but I think I made it up. I’m aware of Prodigy Reloaded and GlassTTY already but they aren’t quite what I’m seeking.

#gateway #keyfax #keycom

Big Baggy Shorts: Recovering Data From Canada’s Telidon System | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10927689/figures#figures

#telidon #videotex #RetroComputing #DataRecovery

This was a bit of an ordeal …
I wrote some Python that generated #NAPLPS — a vector graphics format used on some videotex #BBS services in the 1980s-90s. I'm playing it back here on a #C64 NAPLPS terminal.

I know that the graphic isn't amazing, but the amount of work it took just to decipher how coordinates and colours are applied was pretty daunting.

Thanks to @jdd for introducing me to #Telidon

Videotex – NAPLPS Client for the Commodore 64 Archived — http://jammingsignal.com/2018/01/10/videotex-naplps-client-for-the-commodore-64-archived/

Of *course* my friend Leif found #NAPLPS / #Telidon software for the C64 ...

@jdd it was worth the effort: those #Telidon USB keypads are perfect

Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story | InterAccess — https://interaccess.org/exhibition/remember-tomorrow-telidon-story

This exhibit opens tomorrow at Inter/Access in Toronto

#Telidon #Canada #InterAccess

Curiouser and curiouser.

#retrocomputing #appleiiforever #telidon

Amazing... #Telidon was very early #graphics on #TV over a central service via special decoders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjMUe7hkwRs

I came across it when reading this 1982 paper on #framebuffer #animation: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~ksbooth/PUB/docs/SAMacKay1982.pdf