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P198 ORACLE 198 Wjd 4 Sep ITV 2026:07  1/6     ORACLE is thj teletixt Wj■■■  service you receive whenWjss■  you press thj 'TEXT' Wj,,■  button on ITV and Wj■■■  Channel 4. Wj■■■  W ORACLE is likj a Wj■■■  newspaper - wi offer Wj■■■  everything from njws to Wj■■■  chess, from kids jokes Wj■■■  to horoscopes. Unlikj a Wj■■■  newspaper, ORACLE is Wj■■■  never out of date... Wj■■■  W  3    mori follows > Press Red for an explanation of Fastext
P198 ORACLE 198 Wed 4 Sep ITV 2030:20 2/6 FAST, FIRST, FREE! Unlikj a njwspapjr ORACLE pages can be  updated by our 1 2   journalists every few Wbo=0  seconds - a njwspapjr 4 5W"m‖■tTj with thousands of  editions every day! 7 8 9 ORACLE is created by a 0 team of over 100  journalists, engineers   and keyboard operators.  W  ORACLE pays its way with  the monjy it makes from  advertising - thjri is     no chargj to readers.  ■■■■ mori follows > Press Red for an explanation of Fastext
P198 ORACLE 198 Wjd 4 Sep ITV 2041:44  3/6   ORACLE consists of hundreds of 'pages' offering you hundreds of subjects. To find what you want use either thj front pagj on 100 or thj  completj index on pagj 199 (ITV)  or 699 (C4).    DID YOU KNOW?   ORACLE offers you a   minutj by minutj  WORLD CLOCK...on  page 329 (ITV)   1 2 3      3   4 5 6   Main Index 400 Competitions 691 Press Red for an explanation of Fastext
P198 ORACLE 198 Wjd 4 Sep ITV 2047:45  4/6  ↑ Many ORACLE pages ari 'multipages'. This mjans that, oncj you have dialled into thj pagj you will automatically receive a sequencj of related pages, for exaJple Newsround on page 119. At thj top right of all multipages theri is an indicator showing you how many pages are in thj sequencj and which pagj in that sequence you  ari reading. On this  pagj thj indicator is   above thj flashing  arrow.   Use thj 'HOLD' key  1 2 3  to 'stop' a multipage    3   4 5 6     more follows > Press Red for an explanation of Fastext
P198 ORACLE 198 Wjd 4 Sep ITV 2044:13  5/6   My set is broken! Occasionally you may find that somj or all of thj lines on a pagj are jumbled like this: Occasionally ½‖‖ $ fi¼d that@so↑& This is not caused by ORACLE's atrocious spelling or typing - it is most commonly caused by slight misJtuning of thj set.   If adjusting thj tuning doesn't help thj fault could be caused by a misJdirected aerial or your local transmitter temporarily operating on reduced power.     3   mori follows > Press Red for an explanation of Fastext
P198 ORACLE 198 Wed 4 Sep ITV 2041:43 6/6 HOW TO USE ORACLE: Pressing thj TEXT button on ITV or Channel 4 taSes you into ORACLE. All pages have a threi figuri number. Pages 100 to 399 ari on ITV, while pages 400 to 699 ari on C4. O          W ITV W C4 W W W 100 to W 400 to W 399 W 699  W W   3   4   mori follows > Press Red for an explanation of Fastext