Respiration life again right into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit!
Common readers will know that I’ve numerous love for the French Minitel system and personal a pair. Up to now I’ve written about utilizing a Minitel 1B as a terminal and replacing the EPROM in a Minitel 2 to run custom firmware. Right now I’ll weblog a couple of mission referred to as Minimit.
The Minimit is a small, Minitel-shaped field that attaches to the Minitel’s DIN port and brings the Minitel expertise again to life. The field incorporates an ESP32 which talks to the DIN port outputting Minitel-compatible textual content and graphics. And the graphics and letters seem slowly simply as they’d have within the Eighties.
This is my Minitel 1B related to the Minimit (with a few Eighties equipment to set the scene).
On first boot the Minimit asks you to arrange the WiFi configuration and make an account.
After that it is again to the 80s! Urgent the Information button brings up an inventory of Minitel companies.
They’ve constructed within the information from Le Monde for day by day in 1983, so choosing 7 and hitting Envoi brings up Le Monde with headlines for as we speak (September 9) however 40 years in the past.
However climate info is dwell. Appears like a pleasant day in Toulouse.
And at last this is a style of Minitel in motion. Right here I hit the Suite button to get the subsequent web page of headlines.