TOMORROW'S WORLD BROADCAST
from Your Computer, February 1982

More software broadcasts planned

THE enormous response to the first computer program to go out over the air -
transmitted by BBC Television - has encouraged Tomorrow's World to consider
running a follow-up experiment using a longer routine. The first trial was
restricted to 20 seconds, as the bleeps were of interest only to those people
with computers. Now Tomorrow's World is looking at the possibility of
transmitting another program at night, after the normal TV programmes have
closed down.

Despite a hiccup in the studio which prevented the Tomorrow's World team from
running the first program on their own computer, the experiment was very
successful. Trevor Taylor, who produced the program for Tomorrow's World, tells
Your Computer that more than 2,000 people from as far north as the Shetlands,
and as far south as France, had written to say they had succeeded in recording
and running the program. Two six-year-olds were among those who responded to
the program, while one man who replied claimed to have seen the first ever TV
broadcast half a century ago.

The program, consisting of a 20-second burst of bleeps, was designed to be
picked up by cassette recorders, either direct from the TV ear socket or by
placing the cassette microphone close to the speaker.
