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Fond memories of lugging a 4.77MHZ Compaq "laptop" [0] to and from Paris to hook a Prestel game up to Minitel via X25.

Which fits the mindset as you say, since the game was priced per-unit time and BT were coining it in on the UK side (this wasl still a few years pre-eternal September).

[0] Plasma screen, 1 16-bit ISA expansion slot and 1 8-bit, built in PSU.



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