7 Oct
2008
7 Oct
'08
5:12 p.m.
Pete Edwards wrote:
2008/10/7 Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com>
No, but my guess would be 50 bits a second. Most likely done by the same
branch of the post office, that does mind control.
See almost any Dr Who to find out all the details of mind control.
On 07/10/2008 22:36, John Foust wrote:
In the early 80s, I think there were some very low-speed data stream
Does anyone else remember 'Tomorrow's World' in the UK transmitting software
via a flashing square in the bottom right of the TV picture? There was some
kind of photocell dongle that attached to the computer. Memory is vague -
did it plug into the tape input? I can't remember what the target system
was, possible several via the basic translater mentioned earlier in the
thread? No idea what the data rate was.
systems
via teletext ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext ) that could send
the stream out RS-232. Is my memory correct?
I don't know of any exactly like that, but here in the UK, the BBC
provided
some "telesoftware" on high-numbered teletext pages, encoded using the CET
(Council for Educational Technology) standard, the same as for Prestel (see
wikipedia). There were