<story><title>Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal</title><url>https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/using-minitel-1b-as-serial-terminal.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JPLeRouzic</author><text>A very long time ago (~1985), I dropped my Minitel and the screen was dead.
I cabled an Ascii keyboard on the Mother board and made an interface for a Black&amp;amp; White TV with only one transistor (2N2222 probably) and a few resistors.
The motherboard was inserted in a &amp;quot;Traoumad&amp;quot; metal box for the famous biscuits.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Traou_Mad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Traou_Mad&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal</title><url>https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/using-minitel-1b-as-serial-terminal.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfim</author><text>One of the things that blog post makes me realize is that we don&amp;#x27;t have instruction manuals that are intended for a technical audience anymore. The odds of seeing an instruction manual with pinouts for connectors and voltage levels are pretty much nil nowadays.</text></comment>