> and waited a few seconds for information to appear on the screen
Oh dear me. Later TVs had "fasttext" which cached the information so they could go to a page instantly. Some pages were sent repeatedly (like page 100, the index). But others you'd really have to wait quite a time for while the transmitter cycled through all the pages. I seem to remember Victor Lewis Smith did a joke about this.
Oh dear me. Later TVs had "fasttext" which cached the information so they could go to a page instantly. Some pages were sent repeatedly (like page 100, the index). But others you'd really have to wait quite a time for while the transmitter cycled through all the pages. I seem to remember Victor Lewis Smith did a joke about this.