You ’re plausibly already old-hat of hearing about Microsoft ’s design to use FM subcarrier transmissions to update watch and other widget that use its new SPOT technology and how it ’s already been tried before . All of us here at Gizmodo HQ certainly are . But did you know that in the Eighties Atari had a crazy program to deliver newfangled games for the 2600 over the airwaves using the same 12 kbps FM subcarrier system that Microsoft is planning to habituate ? Atari game were only 4 kB , so conduct an intact biz over radio receiver waves actually would n’t have taken very long .
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