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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)            800880027a   0p
 JAMES PERRY                   011138257
 Well, err we just had a 1.5 hour power 
cut so I'm late! Are you moving all your
'pooters with you??? will this mean any 
service improvements such as a well     
needed micronet only mailbox with full  
duplex uploading....                    
                           Sent 18:53:09
                                        
 Yes, all our Amigas, Decs, PCs, Beebs, 
 Spectrums, Amstrads, RML and Abacus are
 moving with us. You already have full  
 duplex uploading!                      
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
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