British Telecom

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Timeline for British Telecom :

Date	Event
1961	LEO III completed in 1961
Feb 1981	News Article : Experimental U.S. viewdata service is based on British system
Feb 1981	News Article : New Bill will spark vigorous debate before becoming law
Apr 1981	News Article : Commercial satellite plan
Jun 1981	News Article : Post Office on the line
Aug 1982	News Article : Marine caps a success
Feb 1983	News Article : Torch now approved by BT for direct link-up to Telex
18 Jul 1985	News Article : MUD 2 adventure game to be launched

Hardware Products

British Telecom Silver Standard 5.25-inch Disks
Unknown
Eleven 5.25-inch error free flexible disks in rigid plastic case. Double sided; quad density; soft sectored; 96 tracks per inch....

Manufacturer : British Telecom
Type : Peripheral

BT Merlin Silver Flexible Discs
Unknown
5 x 5.25" BT Merlin Mini Flexible Disk....

Manufacturer : British Telecom
Type : Peripheral

BT Gold Standard Flexible Discs
Unknown
Ten 5.25-inch high quality error free flexible discs....

Manufacturer : British Telecom
Type : Peripheral

British Telecom Tandata Terminal
Unknown
This "Tandata BT terminal" was a prototype Prestel terminal.

Manufacturer : British Telecom/Tandata
Type : Peripheral

British Telecom (Trend) 274T / 72K Teleprinter
Unknown
This "Tandata BT terminal" was a prototype Prestel terminal.

Manufacturer : British Telecom
Type : Peripheral

British Telecom Small Business Computer Type A/1A/2B
June 1982
The British Telecom Small Business Computer Type A/1A/2B - System 101 (July 1982) Processor consists of a Z80 CPU card for the IEEE S-100 Standard Bus which was manufactured by Godbout Electronics, 64K Byte RAM card and a 4 port serial I/O card.

Manufacturer : British Telecom
Type : Computer

Acorn - BT Merlin M2105
13th May 1986
The BT Merlin M2105 was manufactured by Acorn for British Telecom as a dedicated communications terminal.

Manufacturer : Acorn Computers / British Telecom
Type : Computer

British Telecom M5210 Series PC
1988
A badged Zenith machine...

Manufacturer : British Telecom
Type : Computer

Software Products

TeleTom
Unknown
A badged Zenith machine......

Manufacturer : British Telecom
Type : Software - Game

M1811 Rompack with Xchange
1984
Xchange is a trademark of Psion Ltd.

Manufacturer : British Telecom Business Systems
Type : Software

Messaging
1984
Messaging enables you to send high-quality, written message from the screen of your TONTO to that of another TONTO owner, and receive messages back, over the telephone network.

Manufacturer : British Telecom Business Systems
Type : Software