Unusual software carriers. (Was :Vinyl Data- Classic Computers )

[John Foust]

At 09:00 AM 10/2/2008, Keith Monahan <keithvz at verizon.net> wrote:
>I think there was some TV program here in the US that did something similar.  They sold relatively inexpensive decoders, that I think attached via rs-232, which allowed you to receive the data.  I believe, however, that they used the entire screen, or a box in the center of the screen, and everything was visible.

In the early 80s, I think there were some very low-speed data stream systems
via teletext ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext ) that could send
the stream out RS-232.  Is my memory correct?

In June 2001 and October 2004, this list discussed the Infocipher modems
for cable systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X*Press_X*Change

Much higher-speed.

- John