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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by hazeii on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:33PM (#16268225)
I thought they were GEC's but might well have been Primes.

I do recall being in Baynard House one night and having a furious shift leader burst in and shout that he wasn't putting up with Shades overloading various mainframes around the country ("what, my little box?" :) ).

Although I never saw much backroom stuff on Minitel, from the outside it was pretty sweet compared to working with BT.

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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by walshemj on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:40PM (#16269307)
Prestel was GEC's GEC 4082's Telecom Gold Was Pr1mes I think all 750's

I should have really had a trip out to baynard to check it out as I was I suppose the dev-op on the Dialcom side working on the new Billing system.

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