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Celebrity Chatline


Micronet Celebrity Chatline was a mechanism for members to send in questions to a visiting celebrity, and answers were posted up to the system in real time.  This allowed for a limited amount of interaction with follow up questions.   Over the years, many famous names appeared, from Paul Daniels to Max Headroom, and everybody in-between.

This particular session, from 18th May 1989, featured the Micronet staff themselves, and was performed on the eve of their move of offices from Herbal Hill in the Farringdon area of London, where the editorial department had been since the launch of Micronet, out to the BT building in Apsley in the middle of nowhere.  

I have many fond memories of Herbal Hill myself - we shared the building with Motor Cycle News, and remember opening the lift doors on the wrong floor once, and being greeted by a sort of cave, with walls lined with beer cans..

Anyway, over to Ian: (No routing on these - you will have to click the NEXT link below the image)
 MICRONET (c)            800880045a   0p
 SEAN MILLER                   045833334
 ..and they reckoned everyone would     
 have Prestel by 1985! ..what happened  
 to their dream!?                       
                           Sent 19:52:46
                                        
                                        
 I don't think that the majority of     
 people were ready, and didn't take to  
 the Prestel TV sets that they tried to 
 sell.                                  
                                        
 Anyway, everyone that counts has       
 Prestel and Micronet!                  
                                        
 QUESTION: Which of the following DIDN'T
 appear on Celebrity Chatline?          
 Rolf Harris, Fergal Sharkey, Mary      
 Whitehouse or Tony Blackburn.          
                                        
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