Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1)
Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1) No comments by: Jenny List August 4, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it an expensive and unattainable luxury, they made the terminals universally available. Many Minitel services cost extra to use, but despite this it was a runaway success that lingered on into the 21st century.
- ▪Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1) No comments by: Jenny List August 4, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era.
- ▪Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it an expensive and unattainable luxury, they made the terminals universally available.
- ▪Many Minitel services cost extra to use, but despite this it was a runaway success that lingered on into the 21st century.
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Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1) No comments by: Jenny List August 4, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it an expensive and unattainable luxury, they made the terminals universally available. Many Minitel services cost extra to use, but despite this it was a runaway success that lingered on into the 21st century. The ubiquitous terminals are now surplus to requirements, but that’s not to say they are useless. [MemoireMorte] has proved this with the Memo-1, a 6502-based computer designed to plug into a Minitel-1 terminal.
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