Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
So you are Mr. Stoinks and it's 1985. How did you keep up to date on the market without being tied to the office? Well you might of had a team manage your investments or you owned a QuoTrek and it kept you briefed while you were at lunch.
In this video I'll show you the QuoTrek and it's desktop counterpart, the Signal and I explain how broadcasting so much information was possible using only an FM radio transmitter.
**ADDITIONAL LINKS**
The Sofcast podcast - ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-394-michael-darland-microperipheral-corporation-and-sofcast
The vcfed thread chain I did on QuoTrek - forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/quotrek-your-stock-portfolio-on-the-go-in-1984.1252846
Popular Science, May 1984 on Google Books - books.google.ca/books?id=lgAAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hackaday article on subcarrier broadcasts - hackaday.com/2024/12/20/subchannel-stations-the-radio-broadcasts-you-didnt-know-were-there
The Ready Reference Guide form Dataspeed that I scanned in - archive.org/details/QTRRG1140200300
For you tech savvy folks out there, I have also dumped the EPROM out of all three of my QuoTrek units and they can be found at the Internet Archive. - archive.org/details/QTRKBINST1
Remember to follow me on Bluesky at "@CelGen.org" to keep up to date on what I am doing and what might be happening in the next video.
So you are Mr. Stoinks and it's 1985. How did you keep up to date on the market without being tied to the office? Well you might of had a team manage your investments or you owned a QuoTrek and it kept you briefed while you were at lunch.
In this video I'll show you the QuoTrek and it's desktop counterpart, the Signal and I explain how broadcasting so much information was possible using only an FM radio transmitter.
**ADDITIONAL LINKS**
The Sofcast podcast - ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-394-michael-darland-microperipheral-corporation-and-sofcast
The vcfed thread chain I did on QuoTrek - forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/quotrek-your-stock-portfolio-on-the-go-in-1984.1252846
Popular Science, May 1984 on Google Books - books.google.ca/books?id=lgAAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hackaday article on subcarrier broadcasts - hackaday.com/2024/12/20/subchannel-stations-the-radio-broadcasts-you-didnt-know-were-there
The Ready Reference Guide form Dataspeed that I scanned in - archive.org/details/QTRRG1140200300
For you tech savvy folks out there, I have also dumped the EPROM out of all three of my QuoTrek units and they can be found at the Internet Archive. - archive.org/details/QTRKBINST1
Remember to follow me on Bluesky at "@CelGen.org" to keep up to date on what I am doing and what might be happening in the next video.
