INVENTORYNo. MT-1 · 0082
- Item
- MINITEL 1, PTT
- Type
- VIDEOTEX, 9-INCH CRT
- Year
- 1982, FRANCE
- Size
- 23 × 25 × 26 CM
- Modem
- V.23 · 1200 / 75
- State
- TUBE OK. KIOSK CLOSED 30·06·2012_
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3615 · Concept · Minitel 140 col × 25 lines · V.23
MINITEL
1 · 1982Every French home had a screen that talked back at 1200 bit/s. This page is that screen: forty columns, eight colours, one cursor.
SCREEN
9-inch monochrome tube
9-inch monochrome tube
MODEM
V.23 · 1200 / 75 bit/s
V.23 · 1200 / 75 bit/s
KEYBOARD
ABCD · folds over the screen
ABCD · folds over the screen
RENTAL
Free with the phone line
Free with the phone line
Formatcm · H × W × D
A lunchbox with a tube inside
23 × 25 × 26 cm, 4.6 kg. The keyboard is the lid: fold it up and the terminal becomes a beige block you can carry under one arm.
4.6kgMains · 30 W in use
ConnectingConnexion / Fin
- 1 UNFOLD
Pull the keyboard down. The tube warms up and the cursor appears top left.
- 2 DIAL 3615
Lift the phone, dial, wait for the whistle, press Connexion/Fin.
- 3 ENVOI
Type the code, press Envoi. The page draws itself, line by line.
1200bit/s
Receive · 75 bit/s send · one line of text per quarter secondKeysTouches de fonction
Nine function keys · one modem
EVERY PAGE
EVERY PAGE
UNDER
ONE KEY
Point at a key to look at it. Letters in ABCD order on the 1982 Minitel 1; the Minitel 1B of 1987 moved to AZERTY.
Inventory · shelf T · bay 1Telematics · 1982 to 2012
Unofficial editorial concept · Minitel and Télétel were services of the French PTT, later France Télécom · Wikipedia FR
3D model built in Blender from photographs of a Telic-Alcatel Minitel 1 (CNAM, Paris, and Wikimedia Commons).