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It is based on the teleprinter that was used on the TV sports show Grandstand at the time the game was made. The vidiprinter was no longer used as of CM 2, probably because the game was PC-exclusive and slow loading times were much less of an issue.

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  • Vidiprinter
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  • It is based on the teleprinter that was used on the TV sports show Grandstand at the time the game was made. The vidiprinter was no longer used as of CM 2, probably because the game was PC-exclusive and slow loading times were much less of an issue.
  • The original vidiprinter was used at the end of Grandstand and would type out results one letter at a time completing about three in an hour. This led to a remarkably tense wait for scorelines to come through, especially if the previous game featured a team with a long name like Queen Of The South. For no reason, if teams scored more than six, the vidiprinter would give it in letters as well as numbers, e.g. LIVERPOOL 9 (NINE) CRYSTAL PALACE NIL.
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  • The original vidiprinter was used at the end of Grandstand and would type out results one letter at a time completing about three in an hour. This led to a remarkably tense wait for scorelines to come through, especially if the previous game featured a team with a long name like Queen Of The South. For no reason, if teams scored more than six, the vidiprinter would give it in letters as well as numbers, e.g. LIVERPOOL 9 (NINE) CRYSTAL PALACE NIL. As technology improved, the vidiprinter managed to scroll scores at a tolerable speed. This drastically reduced the number of cardiac episodes suffered across the country on a Saturday afternoon, but purists felt some of its charm was lost. Today's Final Score and Sky Soccer Saturday shows use a modern version of the vidiprinter but the whole afternoon's scores can come and go in the same time it used to take to get through Queen of the South v Stenhousemuir.
  • It is based on the teleprinter that was used on the TV sports show Grandstand at the time the game was made. The vidiprinter was no longer used as of CM 2, probably because the game was PC-exclusive and slow loading times were much less of an issue.
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