Simon Pettersson has Finally Found a Use for Sweden's Failed Teleguide Terminals: Retro Gaming
Maker Simon Pettersson has brought new life to a near-forgotten relic of Swedish telecommunications history, the failed Teleguide terminal — turning it into a Raspberry Pi-powered all-in-one with mechanical keyboard and original monochrome cathode-ray tube (CRT) display.
"This is a Teleguide, or rather it was a Teleguide; a complete flop of a project from the Swedish state telecom operator, released in 1991," Pettersson explains of the device around which he has built his machine. "They pushed around 10,000 units and a lot of them still sit in storage in unopened boxes around the country, so I got this one for myself, new in unbroken packaging with Styrofoam and spiders and everything."
This isn't your parents' Teleguide: Sweden's failed teleterminal can now be adapted for modern use, powered by a Raspberry Pi. (📷: Simon Pettersson)
Televerket, the Swedish telecoms operator, launched an experimental version of the Teleguide network, developed in partnership...
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