Alcatel V2000 (USA)

This Alcatel M1B/US (branded as "Alcatel V2000") was manufactured in 1990 by Telic Alcatel for US Friden. This particular machine is #47 in the series. It was part of a batch shipped to San Francisco as part of a venture called "101 Online." The community manager for the project, John Coate (formerly from The Well) took these terminals to rave parties for ravers to chat. The history of 101 Online was documented in an article published with the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.