Telic Alcatel Minitel - running as a USB Raspberry Pi Terminal
A short while back I was surfing good old eBay, when I stumbled over a Minitel machine. After doing a bit of checking on wikipedia , I found out that it was an old 1980s machine that was the Internet before the Internet....but they only switched off the service in July 2012! It involved you dialing up a phone number, connecting your phone to the device and then using the keyboard and special orange function keys to navigate around. It looks to be like a Prestel / Teletext / Ceefax / CompuServe type of "internet". Remember those days :-) If you're from the US, then think early days AOL (before the free CDs). Anyway, I happen to have won a bid and the nice snug little device arrived at my humble abode waiting for me to do something useful with it. First of all, I was surprised that it actually worked! It powered on and everything! I say, "everything"...as it just sat there with a blinking cursor and didn't really do anything at all. Oh and ther...
