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Originally Posted by Richard_FM
IIRC Bookmakers used to use Prestel to share the latest odds, betting pattens etc, until quite late in the day.
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I haven't any recollection of that, perhaps some of the independents did.
I was involved with stripping out the old Extel system (remember the "blower") and the maintenance of the SIS system that replaced it. All the SIS graphics was SAA5050 teletext/viewdata style, so it certainly looked like Prestel.
One site I went to was different, they couldn't get planning permission for a satellite dish so I had to install a special tuner in the SIS computer which extracted some closed-user pages from Teletext (ITV I think)