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Interesting I worked on Prestel (Uk Teletext) billing for a while as well as the Telecom Gold (Dialcom) systems and they had super complex and expensive tariffs
by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Interesting I worked on Prestel (Uk Teletext) billing for a while as well as the Telecom Gold (Dialcom) systems and they had super complex and expensive tariffs which stopped wide uptake.
We used to joke that for Prestel you could have a custom tariff for all services almost down to the user level - People whose name is fred and own a goldfish we used to joke.
Prestel Billing use to run on a Unisys mainframe and a super niche language called LINC - and was baroque and crufty to an extreme - there was a BBC micro that sat in a corner and Bonged occasional that was part of it (exactly what I never found out)
- hazeii 6y agoHopefully not at Baynard House [0] I was responible for, ah, certain outages at the time. Not in any malicious sense, but because my game (running on a 4Mhz Z80) managed to overload the whole network. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baynard_House,_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baynard_House,_London
- C1sc0cat 6y agoAh no worked for Telecom gold near London bridge then network house in Aspley spit after workstyle 2000 when they merged telecom gold and prestels developers. Did you know Steve Cornelius? my manger later on - you arnt that Hzaeii from Shades BTW? Recently I worked at the next building over in the same building as the mermaid theatre and used to dink in The cockpit" the "old geezers pub" as a young colleague called it.
- hazeii 6y agoDon't recognise the name,, but then I didn't know any of the Telecom Gold people (I came into it from Micronet). And yes, I am that Hazeii from Shades :)