* How...?
Oddly enough, this was something which posed a problem to start with, until looking around the web, I discovered that Silicon Village, a later rival to Prestel was actually still online, and had a homepage. A quick wander over to the page revealed that they were providing Internet access to SV via a Windows based Viewdata telnet client. So - all you need to do is download a client for your computer and then telnet directly to the board!
Heaven is currently undergoing beta-testing. It's online (most of the time) and you can telnet to it at heaven.affection.net on port 23 (for the time being). You will need to download a Viewdata telnet client for your computer.
Download places

You can download Viewdata telnet clients for various platforms from the following sites, or use the Java client from the front page.

Silicon VillageWorkMate95win95

Pixel TechnologiesTermitewin95

DatasoftViewTermwin3
win95

Pericom Softwareteemwin3
win95
winnt
java
xwin

HeavenHippoTermRISC OS

HeavenBlockDriverRISC OS

University of CologneXbtxxwin

Peter CorlettXViewdatax/linux

  • For RISC OS users, there are two available options. If you already have a comms package capable of Viewdata, such as ArcTerm7, you should just download the Serial Block Driver. If you require a Viewdata client, download HippoTerm.

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