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Subject: |  | Re: folks telecommunicator |
From: | | "David H. Rothman" <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | Communet: Community and Civic Network Discussion List |
Date: | | Tue, 17 Aug 1993 14:28:57 -0400 |
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On Tue, 17 Aug 1993, miekael wrote:
> David, you seem to belive that most of my dislike for the Minitel
> system is that it uses a terminal. This is not true. What I disliked
> the most is the actual terminal, the Vidoetex terminal with it's
> terrible block graphics and letters.
I myself hate the terrible, childish letters on the Prodigy service. Of
course I'd want TeleReader users to choose the sizes and styles of the
characters.
>
> The Swedish telephone company has had a Videotex system running a long
> time now, and the latest investment, TeleGuide, has just turned off
> the last terminal. *evil grin* I think the single reason this system
> broke down was that people interested in computer technology simply
> puked on the system. I mean, if they had uses *ordinary* character
> based terminal when they started the Videotex experiment back in the
> early eighties I think they would have gotten a lot more users.
>
Same point I made re Minitel toys vs. PCs. You're absolutely right.
> Of course, their terrible page based software was a part of the
> failure as well. I guess a lot more people would have used the system
> if it had been menu based or had simply provided a command line with a
> straigthforward help system.
Agreed!
(David reads ahead and keeps nodding his head.)
>
> Things like e-mail was missing as well. Sure, there was some way of
> sending messages to each other within the system, but you had to
> remember something like 11147111, 187827878293 to be able to send a
> single message. The number above is supposed to be a user ID. Arrgh...
>
> Miekael <[log in to unmask]>
>
> void *mind; /* We're all void pointers... */
(Reminder to innocent onlookers: It's no big deal for me to e-mail copies
of the latest version of teleread.txt.)
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David H. Rothman "So we beat on, boats against
[log in to unmask] the current...."
805 N. Howard St., #240
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