USER-FRIENDLY "...and another advantage to using our Carte Bleue service, monsieur, is three months free access to our bank's MINITEL services," the proper French banker said to me as I scrawled my signature on the dotted line. "What's a MINITEL?" I asked, the name sounding vaguely familiar. "Monsieur," he responded, slightly offended that I wasn't aware, "it is France's newest technological achievement. It is a small terminal one uses in the home to access a variety of data bases, such as your bank balance here with us, a telephone directory listing, theatre and cinema schedules, and much, much more," he continued proudly. "You can shop for things electronically. You can even reserve seats for sporting events using your Carte Bleue and your home MINITEL terminal." "Sounds wonderful," I said, wondering just how much of all that would be availab...
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