I found this…it works!
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Wow. That takes me back a bit. 
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Oh wow - yes!!
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The first Teletext remote controls for Thorn televisions (Baird and others) were hard wired to the TV with a long lead from the armchair to the back of the TV. The thickish lead had many internal fine wires. Probably the same for all makes of TV but I had no experience of them at the time.
After some use, the wires would break internally at the remote control end. The cure was to chop an inch off the cable and rewire/resolder the whole lot. Quite a fine task and we had one engineer who took took it on himself to take care of these cases. Good for him. Nobody else really wanted the job. 
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I used to enjoy reading viewers’ letters about tv shows. I’d head straight for it every day. Gutted when it all stopped.
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… and Space Invaders 
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I’m surprised that Cefax lasted as long it did -
Ceefax was started by the BBC in 1974 and ended, after 38 years of broadcasting, at 23:32:19 BST (11:32 PM BST) on 23 October 2012,
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We used to watch Welsh TV and for the English sub titles you just 888 it.
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I used to like the quiz on there. “Bamboozled” I believe it was called.
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Oh yes…that was an ITV one
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We booked many a package holiday using Teletext…
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