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[[Image:TeletextGVine.gif|right|thumb|160px|Society pages from the 1990s]] | [[Image:TeletextGVine.gif|right|thumb|160px|Society pages from the 1990s]] | ||
Old VHS archive tapes from the era which were recorded directly from the network output before a programme started show live evidence of the system, and 5.25" floppies from the [[YSTV | Old VHS archive tapes from the era which were recorded directly from the network output before a programme started show live evidence of the system, and 5.25" floppies from the [[YSTV Archive]] are still perfectly readable despite the continual thrashing that they would have endured as each page was loaded from disc rather than cached in precious RAM. | ||
The software comprised a menu system to select between displaying the Grapevine (normal operation), editing the Grapevine (for new pages), and supervisor mode (for purging old unused pages and other housekeeping). Pages could be scheduled to appear for certain periods of time, periodically, and repeating: for this the BBC Micro required a concept of the day/month/time to be entered at startup. | The software comprised a menu system to select between displaying the Grapevine (normal operation), editing the Grapevine (for new pages), and supervisor mode (for purging old unused pages and other housekeeping). Pages could be scheduled to appear for certain periods of time, periodically, and repeating: for this the BBC Micro required a concept of the day/month/time to be entered at startup. | ||