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In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

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286 points spzb | 1 comments | 28 Mar 25 22:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.05s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[31 Mar 25 10:22 UTC] No.43533246[source]▶
I remember here on HN reading about some vinyl which had either software or games on from the 80s but I dont recall the artist, so this doesnt sound too far from that for me.
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vatys ◴[31 Mar 25 11:13 UTC] No.43533608[source]▶
Much later in the year 2000 there was the 8-Bit Construction Set record: http://www.beigerecords.com/products/beg-004.html

It had Atari and Commodore music (as audio) as well as Atari and Commodore software (as data).

Despite the claim on their old page to be the “first use of vinyl for software distribution” they did later acknowledge and reference some prior art in a Slashdot thread: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140154&threshold=-1&com...

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1. giancarlostoro ◴[31 Mar 25 12:33 UTC] No.43534228[source]▶
This might be it, but I'm not 100% sure, my memory is not what it used to be, there are also a few other good answers.

I wish HN would let you search upvoted comments and submissions, it would revolutionize my life since I can remember previous things I've upvoted, but have no easy way to find any of them. I might sit down one day, and manually export all my liked comments and subscriptions.