This caught my eye the other day. I don’t think I’d ever head of or seen a binary be broadcast as audio over television before. The whole episode is pretty interesting if you like 80’s British campiness but the broadcast is at 4:47 for those TL;DR folks. I’d love to capture the transmission and poke around with it in Audacity. There’s a pretty decent reference to Acorn’s data encoding format here: http://beebwiki.mdfs.net/Acorn_cassette_format
Annnnd someone already has (sorta) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5ZcdO-MAQ
Thanks! That brought back memories. ALLCAPS programs, GOTOs, terrible fonts. Ah the birthplace of millions of programmers today!
What blew me away was that in the 1970s for the lunar missions, the Apollo programs had the DSKY (terminal) on the Command Module wired to a duplicate ground unit and the ground unit could talk to the space unit!