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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: 0.199s | source
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pknerd ◴[31 Mar 25 13:37 UTC] No.43534911[source]▶
My brain is unable to grasp it..How does it work and at what speed things used to get downloaded?
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1. drivers99 ◴[31 Mar 25 17:11 UTC] No.43537307[source]▶
This series of videos walks through building a circuit to decode one type of audio data format that was used in the 80s and send data to a computer and discusses how the audio signal works and simple circuit to turn it into digital data https://www.gregorystrike.com/2023/01/07/kansas-city-standar...

(I just got another one of these kits because I had previously built, successfully tested, then threw it out after I had some issues using it as-is, but I want to build it again with the additional electronics experience I have now.)