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In 1992, with a minitel 1B (80 columns), I have used the 3621 to connect to a service (129040134) that connected me to a vax station at school. From there I was connected to sun station where I edited my thesis using latex and vi. My teacher never knew I was 700km away from him when he received my daily updates.

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How much did it cost?

.The minitel was free (we had to choose between having a minitel or having a paper annuary). The communication on 3615 was expensive (9.15€ per hour). On 3614 or 3621, it was around 3.05€ per hour (sometimes half).

A bit expensive in 1992. I say this as a Spaniard, OFC the costs of living in France was higher than ours, now are pretty even.

EDIT: per hour, about 5C per minute, or 2.5C per minute. It's like a local call, then.

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