Videotex

To experience Telstar properly it needs to be accessed by a microcomputer or Viewdata Terminal from the 1980s. However, for a simple way to get started, the Telstar Viewdata Client can be used.

The Telstar Viewdata client is available for Mac, Linux and Windows and has no dependencies, It allows access to viewdata systems through either a direct TCP/IP connection or via a Modem connected to a local serial port.

a Minitel Terminal, switches in a final translation layer at the point of rendering a frame. This translation layer converts Prestel type frames (CEPT3) to Minitel type frames (CEPT2), it should be a simple process but alas, it is not.

Telstar is a CEPT3 Prestel like system and cannot host CEPT2 type Minitel frames, it simply converts CEPT3 frames to CEPT2 frames on the fly at the point of rendering.

If for some reason Telstar fails to automatically detect the Minitel Terminal a single press of the Connection button (two presses will disconnect) should sort things out.

Are you a Teletext Artist? do you run retro computing events?
Why not become an Information Provider (IP) on Telstar and publish your frames for all to see.

A few things to remember when accessing TELSTAR with an Internet/WiFi Modem.

Telstar, the instrumental by The Tornados ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar), was released in 1962 and became the number 1 selling single in the UK charts,