Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
by raoulvolfoni on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:33AM
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Minitel terminals always were considered to be 'dumb' machines, as mandated by how the service worked. No storage, no graphics capabilities...
However, they were running their little 8 bit microcontroler at 14 Mhz, had 32 kB of ROM... (Ok, just 128 bytes of RAM)
This guy made it do things it had no business doing:
http://hxc2001.free.fr/minitel/
https://youtu.be/a2HD6OzNoEo
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