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There's someone selling an Alex terminal in Montréal for 200$. Kinda want.

Alex was Bell Canada's Minitel, in limited markets from 1988 to 1990, and killed in 1994 (reason: pricy to use and the advent of the internet/Web).

I remember only using one once in a museum expo about "the future" in 1989.

It can be used as a VT100 terminal (and all the modern fun stuff you can do with Minitel-like machines?) so there's that.

Was Prodigy an online service, a band, a rapper, a Pokémon series, a Star Trek series, or something else?

Since I have nothing (sorry, I mean *EVERYTHING*) to do on Thanksgiving, I'm premiering my "online in '89" talk from @demosplash on YouTube in ~2 hours (8pm EST):

https://youtu.be/hUeNciQWysI

I am a big fan of Canada's old #Telidon system that was an advancement to #Videotex services in the early 80s. It was the precursor to #NAPLPS that was used across North America. Here is an uncommon #Commodore 64 software title that decoded Telidon Videotex from the Manitoba Telephone System.

if you're familiar with the minitel videotex terminals, you are probably less familiar with our canadian equivalent: bell's AlexTel system. someone managed to send NAPLPS commands to it and made some vector drawings!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BKRfM5HHSM

"De uitgifte van de nummers voor #videotex en toegang tot datadiensten op andere netwerken in de categorieën 0670 tot en met 0675, en 0677 tot en met 0679 is het afgelopen jaar verder gedaald. In april 2022 is de laatste toekenning van een 06760-nummer ingetrokken."

Because the #Tandy #Videotex hobbyists now have a working server, it is possible to demonstrate the #Atari8bit version of Compuserve's VIDTEX terminal, using a #FujiNet. Both text and graphics modes are fully rendered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpeaYuWS94o

So, who here in the #retrocomputing community knows enough about #videotex to tell me what english language resources exist for what to do with one?

Been too busy to toot much, we planned way too much visits for our short stay in #TheNetherlands. Now leaving #Arnhem, my birth town, where I met with a good friend. He had four bits of #RetroComputing curiosa for my Philips #P2000: two identical basic cartridges, and a set of cartridges with terminal software and a #videotex modem.

Registration now open for my talk “Hacking Telidon in the 21st Century” at InterAccess in Toronto, Sept 8, 6 to 7:30 pm

https://interaccess.org/event/2023/hacking-telidon-21st-century

Not long now until the opening of "Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story" at InterAccess in Toronto! Featuring early Canadian videotex art shown on interactive Telidon displays created by yours truly.

... assuming I get them done in time ...

https://interaccess.org/exhibition/remember-tomorrow-telidon-story

L'UX c'est important !

Années 80, même technos (#Minitel #videotex), même type de données et services de même nature (annuaire électronique)... sauf que...

https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/a-bon-entendeur/video/le-videotex?urn=urn:rts:video:13517288

[1/3] in the late #80s Bell canada created an interactive videotex service few have ever heard of called #AlexTel

like france's #minitel terminals, the alextel is similar in design and layout. it houses a small mono CRT inside the plastic shell, and a fold-out keyboard that neatly folds up to hide the screen.

inside is a 1200 baud modem that you'd use to connect to bell's alextel dial-in service

can't wait to try this out on a dial-in #bbs

Looks like our order for 6 of these went through … they will hopefully all be running our DosBox-based Telidon emulator at a gallery exhibition planned for next year … #telidon #videotex

There's some #videotex #viewdata on this week's #TheSecretGeniusOfModernLife
This quick photo I took is showing #Telstar

Never really did a proper #introduction before. Let's see ...

#retrocomputing
#videotex
#telidon
#ScienceFiction
#CatPics
#LibraryTech
#libraries
#archives
#museums
#cycling

... so, nothing too remarkable then ...

Hey @FunkyBob - Look what I found. Predates when you worked there though. Still seems to work too (tho it needs a little bit of TLC). #bbs #videotex #dialup