Friday 23 March 2012

Interesting ORACLE pages

Here's some interesting pages from the ORACLE recovery currently running:

I think the 777 is correct here as this will have been through hamming, but the rest of the header has probably been falsely matched by the YTV finder. The purple blocks are probably wrong too and it shouldn't be in purple graphics mode! I wonder what this was for?

This page is linked to from the ORACLE user guide. Note the hexadecimal page number so that non-Fastext users can't get to it.  Note also the difficulty the convolution process has with the letter 'p'.


The IBA has gone, now replaced by the non-descript sounding "National Transcommunications" - or NTL, now Arqiva.  The engineering pages always seemed less informative post-IBA.

This is a status page of some sort, probably for teletext but could be for transmitters.  The red Fasttext link goes off to page 5FA; the other three go to page 8FF.  I don't know what's on either page yet.