21 Jun
2025
21 Jun
'25
6:08 p.m.
On 2025-06-21 6:19 p.m., Scott Baker via cctalk wrote:
If a truly modern replacement was fine, there are
things like casduino /
ardutape / tzxduino. These are devices that pretend to be an audio tape,
based on an arduino. Emulating at a digital level would be even easier as
many paper tape interfaces were just RS-232 or parallel. Any arduino or
raspberry pi could handle that job. It just wouldn't look very vintage when
you were done.
Tape IO is possible rather than paper tape, but I have no idea about what
works best for tape hardware.
Scott
I am thinking also about the modern PDP-8 replicas. With out the TTY
the basic PDP-8 is rather crippled, and tethering it to PC for I/O
does not make a standalone computer. I have outgrown 12 bits, and slowly
moving on to 18 bits, so I have not really looked at the replicas in detail.
Ben.