From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!teletext Newsgroups: fa.teletext Title: Re: Future Shock of videotext --> reading ability Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7710 Posted: Sat Jun 19 16:18:04 1982 Received: Sun Jun 20 06:05:07 1982 >From lauren@UCLA-Security Sat Jun 19 16:17:05 1982 I didn't say that none of the experiments have been commercial, I said *most* have not. The ones that *have* been have been the most discouraging. As I said before, only business users seem willing to really pay for the data, and they're not all that happy with the sort of material they have access to on these systems. I might add that to keep things "cheap", most systems have *very* simple keyboards (useless for real typing) and of course the standard videotext return path is 150 baud -- barely adequate for reasonable typing. (1200/300 would be a better, though more expensive, choice). When people have to pay ANYTHING (per page) for videotext sorts of data, it appears that usage falls off VERY rapidly. --Lauren--