Caption Competition! (bit OT) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jan 2003

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 :-)

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