faraday (22:01:21)
now we have raspberry pi

mirrorbird (22:00:03)
ask your school to buy one

mirrorbird (21:59:50)
fara: my school had this thing, it was like an 80s CD-ROM type system, through the BBC, god knows what it cost them -- YouTube Link

mirrorbird (21:57:12)
(or being on some early BBS)

mirrorbird (21:57:03)
Ceefax wasn't as capable (you had a set of fixed pages, and could switch pages to read). Minitel was i think properly interactive, so more like: the stuff the travel agents used to check your holiday details. heh

mirrorbird (21:56:06)
the equivalent of Minitel would probably be Ceefax. (cause it was a data sharing service, and not an actual computer. right?) but Ceefax was an extra feature on a TV set. so not quite the same.

mirrorbird (21:55:21)
not very affordable for homes or schools at that time. but it was the future.

faraday (21:55:11)
on the BBC I guess

mirrorbird (21:55:06)
connecting with modems & stuff.

mirrorbird (21:54:50)
as i said, they wanted to get ordinary citizens into these new 'home computers' in the early 80s. there was also a TV series "Making the Most of the Micro" where they showed programming and stuff, i watched it recently