Adventures with Minitel terminals

John Graham-Cumming is on a journey to refit a Minitel terminal with custom firmware and use as a smart(ish) terminal, or perhaps even as a computer, rather than the dumb character terminal that it was originally. Following, in good retro-computing tradition, in others’ footsteps. Here’s a taster of custom firmware capability:

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Linked blog posts elsewhere:
Etude technique du Minitel by Jean-François Del Nero, whose video we see above

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This is seriously impressive computing for a tiny terminal that was to be had for free!

Edit: Now, I wonder, had there been any contemporary Minitel-hacking back in the day?
(Why would you even consider buying a home computer, if you could do things like these on your free Minitel?)

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