Oracle 1992

31st December 2010 - From Ant :

At this time of year I'm always reminded of how long it has been since Oracle disappeared - 18 years ago this evening in fact. With that in mind. thought you might like this. Bits and pieces of it have been floating around in various forms for a while but at the moment I think this is probably the most complete and restored version of the full last night of Oracle. Sourced from an SVHS recording, processed with some teletext hardware that basically did its best to repair the pages from as many repeat cycles as it could make out, and - after much procrastination - a certain amount of human repair (that would be me then).

P117/02 ORACLE 117 Thu31 Dec ITV 2249:19
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 ******** ORACLE GOES                   
 ******** OFF THE AIR                   
                                        
 ORACLE's news capabilities were first  
 fully demonstrated during the 1982     
 Falklands War when ITN's teletext team 
 provided up-to-the-minute coverage of  
 the conflict in the South Atlantic.    
                                        
 And the service excelled on the major  
 stories like the Gulf War, miners'     
 strike, collapse of Communism, Heysel, 
 Lockerbie, Hillsborough, General       
 Elections, Stock Market crash, Brighton
 bombing, Zeebrugge and many others.    
                                        
 Thank you to the thousands of viewers  
 who have written or phoned over the    
 years, whether it be with brickbats or 
 bouquets.Your interest was appreciated.
 A happy New Year ! - Peter Hall, Editor
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