[Coco] CoCo amateur radio net tonight

[Arthur Flexser]

Reminds me of the time Rainbow had an insert that
was a plasticized page with a record you could play on a turntable to access
a cassette program.

Also reminds me of how, in the early days of the CoCo when all we had was
300-baud modems, some friends and I would exchange software at 1800 baud
over the phone lines using a "cassette modem" that was a modified Radio
Shack speakerphone interfaced to the CoCo's cassette port.  This was a bit
iffy on long-distance calls, but very reliable on local ones.

Art
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk>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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