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In the 1980s, we (tried) to download software from the radio

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Mar 31, 2025
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Was downloading games off the radio really a thing? It certainly was. Standard cassette tapes were a commonplace storage medium (especially in Europe, where the expense of disk drives was a tougher sell), and FM radio was capable of broadcasting the audio encoding. "Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio," …

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