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Unison internet Tv Boxes

  • 05-04-2014 09:24PM
    #1
    Jason_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭


    Anybody remember these ? My parents paid £359 for one back in 1999, It was very expensive to run on dial up.


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  • #2
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    That's wonderful Jason, anything else you would like to share?


  • #3
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    And those tins of spagetti with sausages mixed into it. Ah, old times.


  • #4
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,721 ✭✭✭flutered


    still there, nowdays about $15 for three months, real value, use xbmc and this and your away for slates.


  • #5
    shuffles88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭shuffles88


    What a coincidence I was only talking about those yesterday! Pointless yokes, sure why would you want to be using the internet when you can't also be watching t.v at the same time? :D


  • #6
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    My father paid £700 for a VHS player in the early 80's.


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  • #7
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    It's a slow night on AH...


  • #8
    jaykay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,606 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    I remember when this was all fields **points wistfully at parking lot**


  • #9
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    jaykay74 wrote: »
    I remember when this was all fields **points wistfully at parking lot**

    You're facing the wrong way old timer, the fields are behind you


  • #10
    realistic anorak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭realistic anorak


    A chancer is trying to sell one of these on adverts for €300


  • #11
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Ireland missed a trick by not adopting Prestel/Minitel edit that - they tried and it failed.


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  • #12
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,848 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    realistic anorak wrote: »
    A chancer is trying to sell one of these on adverts for €300

    Some loon will probably buy it to be ironic or something...

    Weren't old style ribbon typewriters trendy a couple of years back?


  • #13
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,400 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Had one when they came out, don't remember it being that expensive though.

    Convinced my parents to leave it in my room and they could keep hold of the card so I couldn't run up a huge bill, of course I had already changed the settings to use without the card.

    Felt pretty smart until the phone bill came in.


  • #14
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Ireland missed a trick by not adopting Prestel/Minitel edit that - they tried and it failed.
    It didn't fail. It was killed off by the cost of the unit, phone line / eirpac and the cost of services. Unless you were a business that needed it for banking / stock market or some such there was no incentive to get it.

    In France they were given out free.

    At peak usage half the French population used minitel for stuff like banking that they now do on the internet.


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