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 Grapevine was the name for YSTV's service of still advertisments and promotions between programmes.
-This was first used some time in the 1980s using primitive Teletext-style technology, and old VHS archive tapes from the era which were recorded directly from the network output before a programme started are thought to be the only evidence of this system.
+This was first used in the mid-1980s using primitive Teletext-style technology driven from a BBC Micro computer, and old VHS archive tapes from the era which were recorded directly from the network output before a programme started are thought to be the only evidence of this system. It replaced an even earlier textual information system, called Quaxfax (Ceefax with a campus duck flavour!), that was produced from a Dragon (?) computer.
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