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  • #2
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,895 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    After tv channels finished for the day there was a time they'd also play programs for you to record.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #3
    marathont
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭marathont


    I know someone who tried to send a game over the telephone, could'nt get it to work though.


  • #4
    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,294 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    I remember reading about it but I always assumed it was more of a British thing
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  • #5
    Inviere
    Registered Users Posts: 7,457 ✭✭✭Inviere


    Twin tape deck with high speed dubbing and auto reverse, sorted :D that’s likely all gibberish to anyone under 30 :o

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  • #6
    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,294 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Inviere wrote: »
    Twin tape deck with high speed dubbing and auto reverse, sorted :D that’s likely all gibberish to anyone under 30 :o

    this was a blessing when I got one as it was a pain to have to use a program copy tape to load the game into memory and then record to a blank tape
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  • #7
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,943 ✭✭✭Doge


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeKWMXuSGCc



    Saw another cool video where the BBC sold kits to the public that used a photo diode.

    The idea was to hold or tape it to the screen while they would have a pulsating light at the corner of the screen during the broadcast of their computer show and it would turn the light into data and send it to your computer.

    I can't remember which keywords are required to find it on youtube though!


  • #8
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,526 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    C&VG published an issue back the 80's that came with a terrible Thompson Twins game with it.
    It also had a few songs they released at the time.
    And cassettes must have been expensive to use on the cover as they used a terrible plastic record, which just made it impossible to load, thanks to the crackles of the format.


  • #9
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJNBDt6MJ9U


  • #10
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    marathont wrote: »
    I know someone who tried to send a game over the telephone, could'nt get it to work though.
    And the internet was born:eek:


  • #11
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,526 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    CathalDublin wrote: »
    And the internet was born:eek:

    I thought it was developed so, in the event of a nuclear attack, the US military could still watch porn?


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