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Coincidentally, it's this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FePROXUG6E
If I remeber correctly BBC also used to do this back in the day.
The BBC version was a small square of "static" broadcast in the corner of the closing credits of the Micro Show and you put and square plastic box (you could get from the show, I can't remember if you had to pay for them or not) with a light sensor over that "static" square and run the special software which take the data and save it as a file. It wasn't terribly reliable but it was an interesting experiment by the B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel
It was a great machine for doing early robotics too - there was an Osbourne/Usbourne book on making an arm from balsa wood.
For those far away from Slovenia, is the broadcast available over the internet (I know, I know)? This link says it's not available because of "regional restrictions": https://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Student-893-s25182/ Edit: Found a working link: https://onlineradiobox.com/si/tudent/?cs=si.tudent&played=1
You can also listen to stream directly on website https://radiostudent.si/
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The BBC version was a small square of "static" broadcast in the corner of the closing credits of the Micro Show and you put and square plastic box (you could get from the show, I can't remember if you had to pay for them or not) with a light sensor over that "static" square and run the special software which take the data and save it as a file. It wasn't terribly reliable but it was an interesting experiment by the B…
Does the BBC still have people in place doing experiments and R&D? I recall at one point they were researching/experimenting with audio codecs. I imagine this has taken a hit with funding cuts and general short-sightedness back home.
Was cassette tape storage more common in Europe than the U.S? I’m too young to have been around for this era, but I’ve just never seen it over here.
A tape drive was a standard accessory for the Commodore 64. Almost all games were on tape. The Amstrad CPC 464 had a tape drive integrated into the chassis (the 6128 used a 3" floppy - not 3" 1/4, a 3" disk). In the UK and Ireland, in the late 80s, the majority of games software in computer shops was for these two platforms (much cheaper than a PC), with a handful floppy disk stuff for PCs. Consoles came in from the…
This triggers a lot of nostalgic feelings. We also had that in Belgrade during 80s, in a radio show hosted by late Zoran Modli. I even recorded some of emmited games although I didn't have a computer at a time. Access to software, music, or any kind of information was hard, slow, and limited back then. Hats off to Žiga Turk and Moj Mikro magazine. That one along with Svet Kompjutera and Računari was the main source o…
Was cassette tape storage more common in Europe than the U.S? I’m too young to have been around for this era, but I’ve just never seen it over here.