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Shades of a Japanese, Star Wars phone droid? (classic green NTT public payphone, early 1980's) (media.piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/cassettefuturism@lemmy.world
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I'm liberating this one from the evil empire. The original poster recently saw this one at Nagoya, evidently one of the few-ish remaining ones in service. Their post title was:

Orange backlit LCD, check! Phone card slot, check! Japan in 1982 was the future! (An endangered species spotted at Nagoya station)

More examples & angles:
https://www.google.com/search?q=classic+green+NTT+public+payphone+from+Japan&udm=2

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

Just a fun little nugget I heard from someone who studied there at the time. I have no personal experience with UK libraries though.

So, any updates? When did the public libraries start having IT systems?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm afraid I don't use them frequently enough to put a date to that, but I can recall around 2010 my local public library at the time being fully computerised as far as I could tell.

    I expect there was a very staggered roll out, partially dependant on the county & their relation to the party in power, plus the north probably getting them later overall.

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