# What would happen if you played a software cassete on a tape recorder?

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**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-you-played-a-software-cassete-on-a-tape-recorder/683289 "2014-03-09T19:56:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-you-played-a-software-cassete-on-a-tape-recorder/683289/12 "2014-03-10T15:09:11Z")

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In the 1970s and 1980s, there were radio and TV shows in which they distributed software by playing the software (i. e. the audio signal) on the air. Computer owners recorded the sound on audio cassettes and loaded the software onto their personal computers. Of course, this sounded horrible and I remember one TV show which played the noise during the closing credits.

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