[chbot] Finnish filesharing from that days when men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

[Charles Manning]

On Tuesday 21 August 2012 16:17:25 Charles Manning wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2012 11:54:26 Kerry Harpur wrote:
> > I wonder how that translates into bytes per second?
> > http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/20/finland-radio-code-broadca
> >st s?page=1
> >
> > Kerry
>
> This is what the BBC did with the BBC micro too.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Programme
>
> The BBC Micro stored data on cassette and software and data were sometimes
> modulated over the TV sound channel. If you recorded the sound onto
> cassette, and the binary gods were smiling, you got a data file that could
> be used on a BBC Micro.
>
> Magazines sometimes also issued "Floppy ROMs". These were thin 33.3 rpm
> records imprinted with the same audio data scheme, storing up to  6 minutes
> or so of data (approx 400k bits of data).
Correction: It was only 300bps. So 100k bits or so. Less than 16 k bytes - 
enough for a substantial program back in those days!

>
> And now the magazines have DVDs....
>