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).

P122/04 ORACLE 122 Thu31 Dec ITV 2235:47
    LIVE *    * ******************* 4/4 
     AT   **  * *** *  ** *********     
  ****** ***  ***** *  ** *********     
  ******** *****************************
     *****                              
  ********  The editor strikes back     
                                        
                                        
 Thanks to all the others, too numerous 
 to mention. Sam and Jessie, Ken, David,
 Eric, Steven, John - you were all on my
 list of people NOT to publish, but I   
 kept finding you irresistible.         
                                        
 And PATIENCE! (Miss Palk of Dumfries)  
 What are we going to do without each   
 other? Never mind, think how rich      
 you're going to be now you don't have a
 phone bill the size of the national    
 debt. Don't smoke yourself to death on 
 it, I'd never forgive myself......     
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