The year 1977 was an important year in the history of home computing.
Before long, kids were swapping programs and games on audio cassettes the same way they swapped music.
Listeners recorded the audio onto cassettes and loaded the programs into their computers.
The radio program named Hobbyscoop became wildly popular.
Original software that came with the Apple II Computer on two cassette tapes.
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A selection of Commodore VIC-20 games on cassette.
In Finland, a similar show went on air on the YLE public radio station.
In 1985, a pilot program was broadcasted and successfully downloaded 600 km away from the station.
Lay people were confused and wondered, What is this lunatic doing?
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Listen to the sounds that was transmitted over the radio.
A cassette simply could not hold that much data.
