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IIRC some variants of the Minitel had a RS232 port. I've seen it used to program alarm systems on site.
by astrobe_ 9y ago
IIRC 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.