Git this for 20 bucks on a French flea market.
It’s a #Minitel terminal with AZERTY keyboard.
In other countries also known as Videotext or BTX.
This was THE network before the internet came along.
This desperately needs a cleanup.
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming

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  • Bits&Terminal Jeff@oldbytes.space
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    2 months ago

    @[email protected] I used to live near Montreal - Alex, the Canadian equivalent to Minitel, was launched in the late 80s but eventually failed because it cost a lot more per hour of use than Minitel and faced competition from BBSes (FidoNet was big) which were cheaper to use. The arrival of cheap commercial Internet killed it officially in 1994 but the writing was on the wall a year or two before.