Modem tones over television or radio

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu Dec 10 13:44:31 1998

At 11:37 AM 12/10/98 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
>I got just two words for you:
> Actimates Barney
>
>In this case it is "have your toy 'look' at the television set..."

Well, as I understand it, the purple one's "TV Pack" includes a special
RF transmitter that grabs a signal from specially encoded videotapes
or even the PBS show. Where did they stuff the signal - in the video
or the audio? If audio, at what frequency? Or is it just in the
second audio channel, like bilingual programming?

Does anyone remember any pre-BBS-era, pre-Internet attempts to send
modem tones over US radio or television programming?

- John
Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 13:44:31 GMT