15 May
2001
15 May
'01
3:31 p.m.
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Haave you considered using magnetic tape to build your
own drum memory?
Would this even work? I don't know, I've only considered it.
kinda doubtful
BTW, we have a [damaged] drum and head unit from a mag drum in our
collection of junk at the college. We're not about to part with it, but
it is beautiful to behold.
I find many old multi-track audio tape
recorders/players in thrift/charity
stores these days. Perhaps you can hack one of those?
How about reworking the heads and using an 8-track?
Then you could have 8 bit wide tape storage :-)
If you look through the magazines from 25 years ago, there is plenty of
info on building audio storage interfaces (Tarbell, Kansas City, ...)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com