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Reminds me of the Amstrad Emailer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_E-mailer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_E-mailer It started out with a few inno
by fredley 6y ago
Reminds me of the Amstrad Emailer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_E-mailer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_E-mailer
It started out with a few innocuous ads, then it got worse and worse until at one point it started displaying adult ads on a device that was on prominent display in people's homes. There was quite a backlash.
- rahimnathwani 6y agoI bought one of these, partly because the in-store advertising/info panel said it was capable of fax. I returned it the next day after unboxing it and discovering that the fax capability was actually just the ability to connect to an Amstrad-operated gateway, that used a premium-rate number, costing something like 50p/minute.