On Jan 16, 21:14, John Honniball wrote:
> Adrian Vickers wrote:
> > See:
> >
> > http://helmies.org.uk/images/cap_comp.jpg
[...]
> > Bonus points for anyone who can identify the make/model of machine
she's
> > actually using. HINT: this photo was published circa. 1983, and is
> > almost certainly British.
>
> I think it's a Prestel adaptor made by Tandata. I had one, somewhere,
> in the original polystyrene packaging.
Yes, I was about to say Tandata or Tantel when I read this.
There are still services that use Prestel/Viewdata protocols -- I spent
ages writing a Viewdata terminal emulator for X-windows a few years ago, so
I could use online banking from my Unix box. Still in use today :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 17:44:00 GMT
