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by lucas_membrane 2256 days ago
Recirculating ball steering?

In the world of color, remember ansi.sys ? That was about 40 years after NTSC. Imagine how well color TV would have worked if the color information had been sent by embedded escape codes.

In the over-the-air broadcasting world, there are all those sub-carriers riding on just about all the FM signals making background monkey-chatter for each other.

And before multiplexing by frequency came along, there were those center-tap methods of sending three signals on two lines, seven signals on four lines (did anyone ever get it to work for fifteen signals on eight lines)?