Comments on: Philips HCS80 Videotex Terminal (Videotel / Minitel)

By: Francesco Sblendorio

Francesco Sblendorio — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:59:12 +0000

Using this ESP32-based board is possibile to use a Minitel in a lot of creative ways:
https://www.tindie.com/products/iodeo/minitel-esp32-dev-board/

I did this video, showing a “universal client” I did for connecting through SSH, Telnet and Websocket with that ESP32:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJAwi0FqDo

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Sat, 16 May 2020 18:34:59 +0000

Hi Everyone.
How much is it?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:42:35 +0000

Hey there, I just got my hands on the Philips Minitel 1 from ebay. Thing won’t power up, not a beep, not a light, nothing. I think it got damaged in shipping. Anyway, I am fairly competent at doing recaps and the like, question is, how do you open this thing? I don’t see any screws, only what look like tabs. I see you got one open, any advice? I’d like to keep form damaging the case. Thanks. you can email me back at benpleasure1@yahoo.com if that is easier. Thanks.

By: Alexandre MONTARON

Alexandre MONTARON — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:59:24 +0000

This Italien release of famous French videotex terminal doing Videotex as well as Viewdata and probably vt100 could be used as a “free” Linux (Unix) terminal with :

$ wget http://canal.chez.com/mntl.ti ; tic mntl.ti

export TERM=minitel1 (or m1-nb) for videotex (CEPT 2 ?)
export TERM=viewdata for viewdata (CEPT 3 ?) -worse than videotex-
export TERM=minitel1b-80 (or m1b-x80) for ASCII vt100 [to be verfied]
…

Alex. – http://canal.chez.com/mntl.ti