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).

P137/01 ORACLE 137 Thu31 Dec ITV 2251:45
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 *************       EMBASSY WORLD     *
 * Frimley Green  PROFESSIONAL CH'SHIP *
 ***************************************
 World champion Phil Taylor insisted the
 rest of the field at the championship  
 will be chasing second place.          
                                        
 The self-styled Crafty Potter from     
 Stoke goes into the event starting     
 on Friday as confident as ever.        
                                        
 He said: "I'm playing better than ever 
 and if I don't win this year I never   
 will."                                 
                                        
 He added: "Recently I had a nine-      
 darter in practice and I've just missed
 others about 30 times. I'm getting more
 180s than ever before and I'm playing  
 so well it's even getting me excited." 
    CORAL-SPORTS/RACING LATEST P189/677

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Oracle 1992