Date   : Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:29:44 -0000
From   : profpep@... (Mike)
Subject: Prestel

> > I think he's on a tight deadline - 1980 happens on February 6th. I've
> > suggested that using BBCs would be easier than real Tandata/Prestel
> > terminals, but they're doing a seperate BBC v Spectrum bit so something
> > which was around doing Prestel in 1980 is I think what he's really
after.
>
> Weird - we had an enquiry the other day about a BBC4 show which (from what
> they say) is essentially about Acorn vs. Spectrum - this sounds like
something
> else (the titles are different), also on BBC4, and also containing
something
> about Acorn vs. Spectrum :-)
>
> A while ago there was also talk of one of those "1970's house" type shows,
and
> I'm sure there was another in the "1970s to present" vein but that was
further
> back still. Can't recall which channels those were, though, and none of
them
> explicitly mentioned Prestel equipment...
>
> Anyway, I've forwarded this one to our lot - I really wouldn't know a
kosher
> Prestel terminal if one were dropped on my foot, but we might have one or
two
> (I know we've got various viewdata systems and terminals, but they
probably
> don't count). At least "I want this in 2 weeks" is better than the "I want
> this tomorrow" that we normally see ;)
>

I might suggest a trawl of older, established travel agents. They used a
Prestel based booking system, back in the day, and I do recall a quite small
monitor. Someone might have one in their store room.

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