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I’m amazed by this. I would have thought quality of radio was so low that the program would be unrecoverably corrupted.
by blowski 8y ago
I’m amazed by this. I would have thought quality of radio was so low that the program would be unrecoverably corrupted.
- adrianmonk 8y agoBack in those days, cassette equipment could be loosely divided into two categories: (1) hifi equipment for listening to music and (2) voice quality battery operated portable cassette recorders with a handle and a built-in speaker. (Walkman and knockoffs also existed as kind of a hybrid of these two.) There were also hifi and voice quality categories of blank cassette tapes. The voice quality stuff was generally good enough for 8-bit computers. FM radio was probably somewhere between the two, at least given good conditions. So it seems like it would have worked fine. I never tried it myself. I did hear a news story about it, but it never became available in my area.
- handelaar 8y agoI saw the comment in the article about FM being less reliable and my brain went immediately to "yup, that'll be the compressor"
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoIt helps that tape drives were really low-speed/low-density, which makes things more robust. See this RFC on Ultra Low-Speed Networking: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217