BBC Micro depth, resolution and memory economy. In the first models, the OS and applications were left with the RAM left over from the display mode. Mode 7 was a Teletext mode, extremely economical on memory and an original requirement due to the BBC's own use of broadcast teletext (Ceefax). It also made the computer useful as a Prestel terminal. The teletext characters were generated on board, for use with monitors and TV sets without a Teletext receiver. Train time displays at UK stations were driven by BBC Master computers in this mode until around the late 1990s. Mode 7 used only
Antiope (teletext) ARTE. Antiope (teletext) Antiope was a French teletext standard in the 1980s. It also formed the basis for the display standard used in the French videotex service Minitel. The term allegedly stood for "Acquisition Numérique et Télévisualisation d’Images Organisées en Pages d’Écriture", which could be loosely translated as "Digital Acquisition and Remote Visualization of Images Organized into Written Pages". Work on Antiope started in 1972 at CCETT, the newly merged French national research centre for television and telecommunications in Rennes, with first field trials in 1975. The system was officially launched in 1976 at Vidcom in Cannes, and simultaneously at