1983: DOWNLOADING Software Via RADIO and CEEFAX | Micro Live | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

Micro Live looks at a few exciting new ways to get the latest software direct to your microprocessor.

Datarama is a Radio West show, hosted by Tim and The General (Tim Lyons and Martin Schimmer) that broadcasts computer programs over the airwaves, for listeners to record and load into their computers. The system has proved a hit with listeners, who claim that all the programme's programs load every time.

The BBC, meanwhile, has launched a new service, dubbed "BBC Ceefax Telesoftware" - using the existing Ceefax system coupled with a teletext adapter (costing just over £200) to deliver software from your television set to your home computer. Lawson Brown, the manager of the service, demonstrates it to Micro Live host Ian McNaught-Davis.

Originally broadcast 2 October, 1983.



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