re-found magazines

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Mon May 12 21:51:26 1997

On Mon, 12 May 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

> On Mon, 12 May 1997, A.R. Duell wrote:
>
> > Of course many things (sound, hi-res graphics, etc) were impossible, but
> > the system did work to some extent. Programs were transmitted on
> > broadcast-band radio (the BBC radio 4 station transmitted them in the
> > middle of the night as something called the 'chip shop takeaway service'
> > (!) - the 'chip shop' was a radio programme that covered home computing at
> > that time). You recorded these programs off-air using a normal tape
> > recorder and played them back into your machine after loading the
> > translator tape.
>
> I must say quite bluntly, that's fucken cool. That is unadulterated,
> undisputable, irrepressible coolness to the nth degree. Wide-band, mass
> software distribution. There's something you won't see today.


I remember Radio Nederlands trying to broadcast computer tapes over
shortwave radio back in late 1981. They did programs fro TRS 80's,
Commodore Pet's and Atari 400/800. I remember that the experiment was a
mixed success, with several TRS-80 users, a few Commodore users, and
only one Atari 800 user succesfully recording the program off-air, and
loading it into their computer.
Received on Mon May 12 1997 - 21:51:26 BST