Ceefax final Goodbye messages

Before the final switchoff of the Ceefax service the Ceefax home page
(P100) cycled through 20 screens. The first was the usual index screen.
The others had "goodbye" messages shrinking in size.

I took photos of them (with a camera on a solid tripod) and have put
them together as an animated GIF file.

Warning! The file is 1.5MB in size. I'm still experimenting with ways of
reducing the size without further damaging the quality:

http://www.peterduncanson.net/temp/Ceefax%20goodbye.gif


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On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:15 -0000, Peter Duncanson
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Before the final switchoff of the Ceefax service the Ceefax home page
(P100) cycled through 20 screens. The first was the usual index screen.
The others had "goodbye" messages shrinking in size.


The reducing white rectangle/box was probably a reference, (in my
opinion), to the shrinking white spot that used to appear when switching
off old B&W CRT Tv's, (when I were a lad).

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On 29/10/2012 22:58, madge wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:15 -0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:


Before the final switchoff of the Ceefax service the Ceefax home page
(P100) cycled through 20 screens. The first was the usual index screen.
The others had "goodbye" messages shrinking in size.


The reducing white rectangle/box was probably a reference, (in my
opinion), to the shrinking white spot that used to appear when switching
off old B&W CRT Tv's, (when I were a lad).



my last crt - a loewe aconda, did that - they probably spent money to
make it that way.

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On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:58:40 -0000, madge
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:15 -0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:


Before the final switchoff of the Ceefax service the Ceefax home page
(P100) cycled through 20 screens. The first was the usual index screen.
The others had "goodbye" messages shrinking in size.


The reducing white rectangle/box was probably a reference, (in my
opinion), to the shrinking white spot that used to appear when switching
off old B&W CRT Tv's, (when I were a lad).

Good thought. That seems highly likely.

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On 30/10/2012 00:24, Peter Duncanson wrote:

The reducing white rectangle/box was probably a reference, (in my
opinion), to the shrinking white spot that used to appear when switching
off old B&W CRT Tv's, (when I were a lad).

Good thought. That seems highly likely.

Or they were copying how Oracle said goodbye, almost 20 years ago:-

http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/o...end-gone.shtml



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On 29/10/2012 22:58, madge wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:15 -0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:


Before the final switchoff of the Ceefax service the Ceefax home page
(P100) cycled through 20 screens. The first was the usual index screen.
The others had "goodbye" messages shrinking in size.


The reducing white rectangle/box was probably a reference, (in my
opinion), to the shrinking white spot that used to appear when switching
off old B&W CRT Tv's, (when I were a lad).

Indeed.

What was on subscreen 19 (along the bottom of the page)? It gets to 18
then cycles back. Was it just blank?

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Mark Carver wrote:

Or they were copying how Oracle said goodbye, almost 20 years ago:-

Twenty years? My, how time flies ...

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:28:36 +0000, Jeff Layman
wrote:

On 29/10/2012 22:58, madge wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:15 -0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:


Before the final switchoff of the Ceefax service the Ceefax home page
(P100) cycled through 20 screens. The first was the usual index screen.
The others had "goodbye" messages shrinking in size.


The reducing white rectangle/box was probably a reference, (in my
opinion), to the shrinking white spot that used to appear when switching
off old B&W CRT Tv's, (when I were a lad).

Indeed.

What was on subscreen 19 (along the bottom of the page)? It gets to 18
then cycles back. Was it just blank?

I accidentally omitted that subscreen. The white rectangle in the centre
shrinks to a small square in subscreen 19.

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In message , Peter Duncanson
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:28:36 +0000, Jeff Layman
wrote:

On 29/10/2012 22:58, madge wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:10:15 -0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:


Before the final switchoff of the Ceefax service the Ceefax home page
(P100) cycled through 20 screens. The first was the usual index screen.
The others had "goodbye" messages shrinking in size.


The reducing white rectangle/box was probably a reference, (in my
opinion), to the shrinking white spot that used to appear when switching
off old B&W CRT Tv's, (when I were a lad).

Indeed.

What was on subscreen 19 (along the bottom of the page)? It gets to 18
then cycles back. Was it just blank?

I accidentally omitted that subscreen. The white rectangle in the centre
shrinks to a small square in subscreen 19.

I have to admit that I was hoping for a final small, round dot.
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Ian Jackson wrote:

I have to admit that I was hoping for a final small, round dot.
It would have to be square.

Bill