7 Oct
2008
7 Oct
'08
5 p.m.
2008/10/7 Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com>
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.
--
Pete Edwards
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" - Niels
Bohr
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