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I'm from Tetalab, a hackerspace in Toulouse, France, and we still use the minitel for some hacks with arduino: http://www.tetalab.org/images/tetalab/MSM.jpg ht

by alx 15y ago

I'm from Tetalab, a hackerspace in Toulouse, France, and we still use the minitel for some hacks with arduino: http://www.tetalab.org/images/tetalab/MSM.jpg http://www.tetalab.org/images/tetalab/MSM.jpg It's a neat interface, everybody here in France remember it from the 80's, and it quite easy to hack it. We should soon release an arduino lib for eveybody to hack it, but it'll be quite hard to find a minitel if you're not in France (nobody use it anymore, it's quite easy to find second-hand, but surely heavy to ship...)

jgrahamc 15y ago
C'est ou ça à Toulouse? J'habitais à Toulouse (l'hyper-centre) pendant trois ans.
- snippyhollow 15y ago
  Je pense que c'est ici http://www.mixart-myrys.org http://www.mixart-myrys.org // http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mixart-Myrys+toulouse&hl=fr&ll=43.618128,1.421453&spn=0.007456,0.016544&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=65.390746,135.527344&z=17 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mixart-Myrys+toulouse&hl=f... :)
  - ignifero 15y ago
    See, if you guys had made an english version, it would be a household name by now. downvote.
    - eru 15y ago
      Remove the "downvote.", and you're welcome on HN.
kahawe 15y ago
How difficult would it be to make a proxy for it and make minitel accessible world wide? Do they bill you per minute?
- madflo 15y ago
  Yes, they do. There are several billing schemes. Usually a connexion fee plus a per minute billing. The fun part being that there was e-mail and www services accessible from the Minitel. France Telecom internet provider, Wanadoo (now Orange) used to provide an ActiveX application to access the Minitel over IP; with the per minute usage being billed on the Internet account owner tab.
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