11 Dec
1998
11 Dec
'98
4:12 a.m.
Years ago (1984?) in the UK there were computer
programs transmitted by
the BBC using a Dutch format called Basicode.
I remember staying up late on several occasions,
recording off the radio
onto a cassette tape and loading it onto my old Model 1 TRS-80.
Oh yes. It was called the 'chip shop takeaway
service' :-). Awful pun...
Does anyone else here remember this?
Not from GB, but Basicode has also been popular in Germany,
later on combined with Supertape format to get a comon tape
exchange for a real lot of homecomputers. Also most of the
porgramms that have been published using a bar code printout
in magazines used Basicode, to reach as many readers as
possible.
Gruss
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK