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From: yyz@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: The next 15 years
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Date: 17 Aug 90 07:06:40 GMT
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Daniel Ranc, posting from France, reports that:

> The French Telecom provided FOR FREE (!!!!) EVERY (yes) phone customer 
> a little terminal (called minitel). The minitel has a 1200/75 baud 
> modem allowing to connect to:

I have a friend who just returned from France the other week. She said 
that the minitels were great, but they weren't free.  My understanding 
of the situation is that they were given to a whole bunch of people 
to sort of get the ball rolling, and when the craze caught on, they 
started selling them -- and I'm told that they're not cheap.

Steve C. Schneider