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To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (17518)	9/2/1998 9:54:00 AM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) of 213172

<<Jobs is going to France on September 19th>> Hmmmmm. Very interesting. France is the only European country to resist the internet. The reason: France was the first country to have a national telecommunications system installed complete with e-mail, chatrooms and simple graphics. It was setup similar to a huge CompuServe-like BBS system centered around a conspicuous all-in-one dumb terminal called MiniTel (Howard Stern fans keep quiet!). They tried to push it here in the U.S. through some of the magazines. I almost got a MiniTel through New York magazine. Service was like $10 a month with one-time purchase of the MiniTel terminal for $39. I just signed up for the service hooked up to it with my Mac SE. It was very rudimentary as a BBS. CompuServe had much more content. Anyway. I suspect that the iMac will do well there. They just have top convinvce the French Telcos (the primary benifactors of MiniTel $$) that the internet and iMac will ultimately make them even more $$ by expanding international business. Apple could be the early pioneers of the French Internet industry! -Bill_H

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