[Coco] CoCo amateur radio net tonight

[John Donaldson]

  I remember when you could buy a copy of a software magazine and inside 
was a insert with a plastic phonograph record. You hooked your 
phonograph output to the cassette input of your COCO and when you played 
the record your got a cassette program.

John Donaldson

On 9/28/2010 5:11 PM, Ciaran Anscomb wrote:
> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> I remember reading that in the UK the BBC sent software over the air
>> for the BBC Micro at some point
> There were radio and television programmes that broadcast cassette audio
> for various platforms.  A recent-ish Charlie Brooker programme actually
> included a clip from one of these ("Data Base?") that had a whole (small)
> Dragon program in its closing credits!  Due to the various transcoding
> stages, I couldn't get it to load past the filename block.
>
> But the beeb also sent BBC Micro software in (inaccessible through the
> usual interface) ceefax pages, which was pretty nifty.  Our school had
> a teletext wedge, and while I remember trying to receive some of those,
> I also remember a lot of bad reception, and have no clear recollection
> of anything actually working.
>
> ..ciaran
>
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