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cmjones01 · 7th Mar 2018, 11:02 pm

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about PhONEday. This was definitely before that. It was certainly a Cambridge number, so it must have been 0223 4411 (or was it 0223 1111? I've probably got it on a BBC floppy image somewhere...). The point was to get access to Prestel at local call rate, so it wouldn't have been a London number.

Thanks for all the Prestel memories! It seems like there were quite a lot of different dialup numbers used for it in different areas, despite the nominal short code for access.

Chris

7th Mar 2018, 11:02 pm	#8
cmjones01 Nonode Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Warsaw, Poland and Cambridge, UK Posts: 2,679	Re: Prestel and Micronet 800 dialup - how did it work? Ah yes, I'd forgotten about PhONEday. This was definitely before that. It was certainly a Cambridge number, so it must have been 0223 4411 (or was it 0223 1111? I've probably got it on a BBC floppy image somewhere...). The point was to get access to Prestel at local call rate, so it wouldn't have been a London number. Thanks for all the Prestel memories! It seems like there were quite a lot of different dialup numbers used for it in different areas, despite the nominal short code for access. Chris __________________ What's going on in the workshop? http://martin-jones.com/