11 Dec
2005
11 Dec
'05
5:22 p.m.
On 12/11/2005 at 11:01 AM John Foust wrote:
Speaking of audio cassette storage, I received this
inquiry
to my web. Click the link to hear the data he has... What's
odd to my ear is that the data seems to be packeted between
carrier. Might this be someone's custom data, as opposed to
ordinary program load/save?
I don't know about the content, but units that used these cassette tapes to
simulate a paper tape reader or punch were not uncommon in the early-to-mid
70's. I used to have one with two decks and was block formatted and
searchable--in either direction. Top speed IIRC, was about 2400 baud. For
a time, I used it with an early editing terminal as a rudimentary word
processing system.
Cheers,
Chuck