tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post5149503582349167893..comments2024-02-21T08:20:58.468+00:00Comments on Previously On Ben Baker: Communication is Paramount: Remembering MailboxBenBakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04380884408057334086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post-55577716240078318752018-02-25T23:11:59.800+00:002018-02-25T23:11:59.800+00:00I remember Mailbox. Ed was most entertaining. Ther...I remember Mailbox. Ed was most entertaining. There used to be someone called The Rock (but from Widnes) who posted regularly.Phil Costinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480761919882725876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123012889801407186.post-83337576757468065682017-04-20T17:21:47.120+01:002017-04-20T17:21:47.120+01:00You have met someone from PText. I was "Fires...You have met someone from PText. I was "Firestarter, Wellingborough".<br /><br />Also, I met half of the team behind it, as I had a job interview there in 1996 to be a writer/designer for the teletext service. When I say "half the team", I mean the one who wasn't Ant Purvis - Ant's boss, Eddie McKendrick, former publisher of Crash. (Adding to this ZX Spectrum nostalgia, the station was situated in the former HQ of Your Sinclair.)<br /><br />Eddie let me stay around for a few hours, I got to visit every room in there, so it meant seeing everything in the operations of Nickelodeon UK and the Paramount Comedy Channel, from the tape archive, the Blues Clues studio to the battered computer box that churned out the teletext (it was actually the one used for Oracle, where Eddie used to work).Pete Prodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094674072534759458noreply@blogger.com