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Electronic Newspapers (Caroline Era)

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The first British newspaper to introduce an electronic edition was the Times. This was a text-only service due to the limitations of domestic computers of the time - the Sinclair Ambassador, which was the standard computer provided by the Post Office to domestic subscribers at the time, was unable to produce sophisticated images. This changed in the next year with the introduction of the Sinclair Ambassador II, which included a means of displaying high-definition images with text, recording the file automatically and printing the newspaper out.

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The first British newspaper to introduce an electronic edition was the Times. This was a text-only service due to the limitations of domestic computers of the time - the Sinclair Ambassador, which was the standard computer provided by the Post Office to domestic subscribers at the time, was unable to produce sophisticated images. This changed in the next year with the introduction of the Sinclair Ambassador II, which included a means of displaying high-definition images with text, recording the file automatically and printing the newspaper out. The most common method of receiving electronic newspapers is to set up a service to receive electronic delivery of a newspaper at a pre-specified time of day, The newspaper publisher then dials all the subscriber numbers simultaneously at that time and the receipt of the call activates the domestic computer tape drives simultaneously with downloading the file representing the newspaper. If the user has chosen to do so, while receiving the newspaper data, the printer will produce a double-sided monochrome edition with capitals and lowercase alphanumeric text on sheets of thermal paper the size of a double-page of the former tabloid newspapers, though some choose to read them on screen. This is then automatically folded by the printer and placed on top. Further editions can be printed directly from the tape without using the computer. Users who have not received a newspaper for any reason can dial into the service and either pay once or use a password to obtain the newspaper for no additional charge. On screen, newspapers have a somewhat different appearance to their print equivalents. They do not mix case and the text is displayed overlaid with illustrations, and of course the display is green on black. Memory limitations mean that only one page is generally displayed at a time. Electronic newspapers are updated constantly and do not generally have daily editions, although there are weekly newspapers which contain completely new content updated in one go.