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Podcast: Byte High no Limit
Episode: John Adams - Inventor, Creator of teletext
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John conceived the idea and made the original design of Teletext in the early 1970’s whilst working at Philips / Mullard Central Application Laboratories (CAL) in London.
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He left Manchester university in 1970 with a passionate desire to work in the field of electronic brains, (now called AI), digital computing and information systems. Though less than a year out of university, Philips promoted John in 1971 to Lead Designer for Computer Data Entry Terminals. This was a new field as computers at that time typically used mechanical machines (teletypes) for data entry.
His development of advanced computer text displays was ground-breaking work in itsel...