Other systems used the Viewdata protocols made popular in the UK by British Telecom's Prestel service, and the on-line magazine Micronet 800 whom were busy giving away modems with their subscriptions.

* Prism Micro Products, a British telecommunications company that produced modems for the Micronet 800 network

During the mid-1980s, Telemap Group Ltd launched a fee-based service allowing users to connect their ZX Spectrums via a Prism Micro Products VTX5000 modem to a viewdata service known as Micronet 800, hosted by Prestel.

However, if a user signed up through, or later joined, products or services from major IPs, such as Micronet 800, Club 403, Prestel Travel, CitiService, etc., they would be given a different welcome page, so that after logon they were routed directly to 800a, 403a, 747a etc.

Micronet 800 was an information provider ( IP ) on Prestel, aimed at the 1980s personal computer market.

Users would log onto the Prestel network ( which was usually a local call ) and then access the Micronet 800 home page by entering * 800 # ( hence the name ) on their modem or computer.

Most Micronet 800 members would have their default main index page set to page 800 automatically.

The name Micronet 800 derives from its home page, 800, on the BT Prestel videotext service.

Micronet 800 derived from the earlier development in 1980 and 1981 of ' Electronic Insight ' by Bob Denton.

Hease suggested that there be several different ' areas ' of the magazine, with titles such as MicroNews, MicroNet ( for those interested in networking ), etc., and Babsky proposed that the entire project be called ' Micronet 800 ' to ensure that it could be easily found by anyone using Prestel, as its page number would be part of its name.

Telemap was to be the base for Micronet 800 and the editorial development of the site.

Yet Micronet 800 had versions of many of the Internet's subsequent features, especially an interactive ' ChatLine ' ( similar to Internet Relay Chat ) developed by Mike Brown, who joined Micronet 800 from the Council for Educational Technology, where he'd devised a standard UK format for downloadable programs which became known as ' telesoftware '.

Micronet 800 was quite similar in scope to, and compatible with, the German Bildschirmtext and French Minitel services, but Minitel achieved volume sales for its terminals by the simple expedient of replacing paper telephone books with their terminals.

Micronet then negotiated with hobbyist computer groups to provide applications and utilities that would be listed on, and be downloadable from, the Micronet 800 site.

Some 25, 000 subscribers were eventually signed up to Micronet 800 to make it the largest CUG, Closed User Group, on Prestel ; its total user base peaked at 90, 000.

Following Prism's collapse in 1985 and the subsequent purchase of their stock by Telemap, and in a bid to increase take-up, Micronet 800 encouraged users by giving away a free modem to new users subscribing for a year.

Many of the lessons learned with respect to online publishing and interactive services were pioneered by Micronet 800 and became every bit as important with the growth of the Internet.

* Barbara Conway ( died 1991 ), part-time media editor in the early years of Micronet 800

Starting out as a hobby, SHADES became accessible in the UK as a commercial MUD via British Telecom's Prestel and Micronet networks.

A scandal on SHADES led to the closure of Micronet, as described in Indra Sinha's net-memoir, The Cybergypsies.

Hease's and Denton's Prism Micro Products, the exclusive distributor of Sinclair Computers in the UK, was charged with developing the required modems for the enterprise, to ensure that Micronet 800's pages could be accessed by such ' microcomputers ' as Apple II, Sinclair ZX81, BBC Microcomputer, Dragon, IBM PCs, Commodore PETs, and subsequently the Sinclair Spectrum and QL, Lynx, Commodore VIC 20 and 64 and others of the first wave of 1980s home computers.

* News and reviews: Micronet was frequently the first organisation worldwide to report on happenings in the UK computer industry.

* Online games: The longest-running game on the system was StarNet, a Play-by-mail game, whereby the players would send in moves which would be executed once a day ( a sort of very slow game of chess, where the aim was to become the emperor of the galaxy ) run by Liverpudlian Mike Singleton by inputting the moves he was forwarded by email from Micronet into a Commodore PET computer.

is the name of a Sega CD turn-based strategy game designed by Micronet, where you play against the computer as a nation of your choice in the present day or in the future.

" Micronet is to communication in the 80s what the Bible was to the Middle Ages "-David Babsky, Micronet Editor, 1984.

Hease negotiated with then telecoms minister John Butcher a £ 25 subsidy for Micronet subscribers to have their homes equipped free with a telephone jack-socket for the relevant modem.

For Micronet, Denton negotiated that the interested parties would all agree to adopt the CET, Council for Educational Technology, format for telesoftware-one of two then competing formats.

These were ready-to-use out of a box, so that the buyer would get the modem with all relevant leads, cards ( if necessary ) and software to connect with Micronet.

Micronet achieved over 1. 1 million page views a week.

In 1985 Telemap saw that Prism was preoccupied with its Sinclair computer distribution agency and in developing Prism's own ' luggable ' Wren microcomputer, so prospective Micronet subscribers were then sent a list of several other modem suppliers.

However, in a move that saw the demise of Micronet, Prestel priced the home user out of the service with a new pricing structure, adding time charges on top of the phone charges for evening access which effectively killed off home usage even though the network was under-utilized during the 6pm to 8am time-slot.

He also made several contacts among the Native American tribes in the area, at one point negotiating an $ 800, 000 settlement between the Creeks and other tribes and the federal government.

There was also a small faction of devoted Atari BBSes that used the Atari 800, then the 800XL, and eventually the 1040ST.

Tombaugh discovered nearly 800 asteroids during his search for Pluto and years of follow-up searches looking for another candidate for the postulated Planet X. Tombaugh is also credited with the discovery of comet C / 1931 AN, though its orbit is currently unknown.

Tradition has it that this was the reason for the expedition of Ru, from Tupua ' i in French Polynesia, who landed on Aitutaki, and Tangiia, also from French Polynesia, both of whom are believed to have arrived on Rarotonga around 800 AD.

He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.

Often depicted in carvings c. 800 AD, the Norse hero Gunther ( also known as Gunnar ), played a lute with his toes as he lay dying in a snake-pit, in the legend of Siegfried.

Gadolinium also form sesquichloride Gd < sub > 2 </ sub > Cl < sub > 3 </ sub >, which can be further reduced to GdCl by annealing at 800 ° C.

( Hee Haw tapes were later sold using the " 800 " number 1-800-BR54949 ; also, the country music group BR5-49 adopted the number as the name of their band.

Higher energies can also be used: accelerators capable of 5 MeV ( 800, 000 aJ ) are common.

After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800, 000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1. 7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390, 000 deaths during kulak forced resettlementwith a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.

This tetrahedron is also present in liquid and gaseous phosphorus up to the temperature of 800 ° C when it starts decomposing to molecules.

The rain forests also offer prime habitat for more than 500 species of birds, including the Philippine eagle ( or monkey-eating eagle ), some 800 species of orchids, and some 8, 500 species of flowering plants.

During this age ( among the 1500 BC and the 800 BC ) the first necropolises ( placed where stand the present-day Piazza Duomo and Millstone Square ) rose also.

Nurmi also tested his speed in the 800 m, winning the 1923 Finnish Championships with a new national record.

There are an estimated one million Roma in the United States ; 800, 000 in Brazil, whose ancestors were deported by the government of Portugal during the colonial era ; and in more recent migrations, Romani have also moved to other parts of the Americas.

MOP was planned as a long-term effort to conduct a general survey of the sky and also carry out targeted searches of 800 specific nearby stars.

" Time also interviewed a former deputy chief of Nicaraguan military counterintelligence, who stated that he had fled Nicaragua after being ordered to eliminate 800 Miskito prisoners and make it look like they had died in combat.

The album debuted at No. 3 on US Billboard 200, No. 1 on the Top Modern Rock / Alternative Albums Chart, No. 1 on the Top Digital Albums Chart, and also No. 1 on the Top Internet Albums Chart, with first week sales of 91, 800 units.

In 1992 the New York Times reported the Times had only one-eighth the circulation of the Post ( 100, 000 to 800, 000 ) and that two-thirds of its subscribers also subscribed to the Post.

The F region contains ionized gases at a height of around 150 – 800 km above sea level, placing it in the Earth ’ s thermosphere, a hot region in the upper atmosphere, and also in the heterosphere, where chemical composition varies with height.

He had also amassed a collection of 800 gemstones.

International Chinese students also comprise 11 percent of the nearly 5, 800 freshmen at the University of Washington.

Grenoble is also the largest research center in France after Paris with 22, 800 jobs ( 11, 800 in public research, 7, 500 in private research and 3, 500 PhD students ).

To larger degree modern Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of Jews who migrated into northern France and lower Germany around 800 – 1000 CE, and later migrated also into Eastern Europe.