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I was just reading the Woot blog (yes I also read some weird blogs), and there was an entry about Poland broadcasting computer programs over the airwaves for people to record on their cassette recorders.  Yes kids this was early wifi

Does anybody else remember the BBC doing this? I remember recording some BBC Micro programs and taking them into school the next day to try them out.  Does anyone else remember The Computer Programme with Ian McNaught-Davis?

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Gravatar Image1 - It was done in Italy too!
I remember the radio broadcasts for the C64 or the ZX Spectrum...

RAI Italy still broadcast some software encoded inside the teletext service.

Gravatar Image2 - I remember the BBC doing that! It was usually in the end-credits of whatever the computer show was. Splendid!

Nothing like sitting there for six minutes whilst programs load from cassetteā€¦ only to find that the load failed.

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