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When I was in middle school, I was participating in a meteorological club, and we had such a minitel server. People from around could phone in with their minit
by glandium 9y ago
When I was in middle school, I was participating in a meteorological club, and we had such a minitel server.
People from around could phone in with their minitel, and get the information we'd put there for them. The few kids in the club collected data from a small weather station, compiled it, and put it there. We'd also sometimes redesign the presentation of the minitel "site".
We were coached by a maths teacher, and that was part of what got me into computers (I had an Oric Atmos at home, the club was the first time I had access to PCs (with Windows 2! But we'd most usually run DOS); we had access to some Thomson MO5 in primary school before that).
- astrobe_ 9y agoIIRC some variants of the Minitel had a RS232 port. I've seen it used to program alarm systems on site.
- fabrice_d 9y agoEven the Minitel 1 had a rs232 port, on a non standard connector. Super slow though, 75/1200 bauds :)
- glandium 9y agoIIRC, all the minitels above and including the 1B had a serial port, but it was through a DIN connector. We were using that to test our "site" by feeding it directly from a PC. I'm not sure the Minitel 1 had one.
- fermigier 9y ago30 year ago, I hooked my mother's Minitel to my Atari 800 XL's joystick port, using (IIRC) a couple of transistors on a breadboard, and a software serial interface that probably consisted of a few tens of lines of assembly. This was the summit of my hardware career ;)
- jacquesm 9y agoThat's more than most programmers.