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<p>Thanks, Joly. Was interested to learn from that Kotaku piece
about software broadcasts on local radio, where enthusiasts could
become more closely and directly involved than they could with the
national-level stations' output. <br>
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<p>For anyone who's interested in broadcast software more generally,
it's covered in Frank Veraart's paper "Basicode: co-producing a
microcomputer Esperanto" in <i>History of Technology</i> 28
(2008), which mentions the involvement of various European
broadcasters (including, in the UK, BBC Radio 4, which scheduled
early-morning data transmissions to accompany its computing show <i>Chip
Shop</i>). <br>
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<p>There were even limited attempts at similar approaches on British
TV in the 80s. Channel 4's show <i>4 Computer Buffs</i>
experimented with screening data to be picked up by a
photoreceptor: <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907510">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907510</a><br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7O5EXtN94PIC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=">https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7O5EXtN94PIC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=</a>"4+computer+buffs"<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/index7943.html?page_id=568">http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/index7943.html?page_id=568</a></p>
<p>The story of Automata, the firm that produced Pimania, is also
fascinating. Tom Lean's 2016 book <i>Electronic Dreams</i> has an
interview with presiding genius Mel Croucher among its most
revealing sources, and Croucher himself last year produced a book
on the development of the firm's most extraordinary production,
1984's <i>Deus Ex Machina</i>. <br>
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<p>Best<br>
James</p>
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