Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation

Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by scarecrowbob on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:15PM (#47594199)

As I understand it, transferring data as audio goes back quite ways, right?

I had a Commodore 64 that could use phillips tape. I'm drawing. blank, but IIRC there were musical instruments (maybe the roland juno 60?) in the 80s that were storing their data as audio, too.

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by somat on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @07:53PM (#47595030)

Here, this is a lot of fun.

http://www.whence.com/minimodem/

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by scarecrowbob on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:19PM (#47595624)

I mean, I'm thinking about upgrading from my tech license so I can start playing with digital modes on HF radio...

damn, this thread is making me feel old...

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by bobmcnamara on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:02PM (#47595095)

Kansas City Standard was delivered on cheap records through the mail

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:26AM (#47599411)

Yus, apparently some software was broadcast on the radio, people could record it on tape and use it on their Commodore and such.

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by spogbiper on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:42AM (#47601642)

also distributed on thin records inserted into computer magazines

https://obsoletemedia.org/floppy-rom/

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by scarecrowbob on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:38AM (#47602347)

Heck, my computer used to get on the land line telephone and ask its friends for software.

One of the weirdest things I did last week was realizing that my flipper zero could be used as a redbox... now I just need to find a payphone with a trunk...

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by jvoorhis on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:27AM (#47601414)

Yeah, Juno-106 as well.

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by lintbrush on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:30PM (#47606796)

Yep, that's correct about the Juno 60. There are people still sharing WAV files of the original factory patches which is cool to be able to re-load now and again.

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Re:Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth impl... by duped on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @08:18PM (#47608444)

Disney used it to control their animatronics for many years (aka, "audio animatronics")

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