Date : Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:47:29 +0200
From : "Robert Schmidt" <robert@...>
Subject: Re: age asks about broadcast of BBC software over radio
Hi, Glenn!
Yours are interesting questions! I am afraid I had no experience with
this broadcasted software, but maybe somebody on the BBC micro mailing
list did. I've sent a copy of this reply to the list.
Glenn Mulcaster wrote:
>
> Hi Robert
>
> My name is Glenn Mulcaster, a technology journalist with the Age
> newspaper in Melbourne.
> I've been looking at the BBC Lives page. Great resource.
> I am writing an article about the introduction of digital radio, which
> will be able to offer music or software downloads with multi-channel
> broadcasting.
> However, I note from your page that the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Chip
> Shop, broadcast software data that could be taped on a cassette for
> uploading on the BBC micro.
> I would like to email somebody who actually taped that broadcast to ask
> them when it happened and what the software typically was, what was the
> announcement before and after and who managed the radio show when it
> happened.
> I don't think many people realise how close the so-called future of this
> software/recorded music delivery mechanism is to one of this early
> experiments in the PC revolution.
> Did you tape this software?
> I am particularly interested to know whether the sound quality over an
> analog radio signal is sufficient to reproduce it?
> How long did a broadcast typically last?
> What size of files were transmitted?
> Was it a one-off event, or was it a regular time slot?
> What did it sound like? It must have been confusing to listeners tuning
> in their dial in the middle of the broadcast?
> Also, what happened to BBC Software, the software development arm of the
> BBC?
>
> I hope you can help me .
>
> Regards
> Glenn Mulcaster
> Email: gmulcaster@...
> Ph 61 3 9601 2068; Ph 61 3 9601 2960
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