In message <1110504341.4413.91.camel at weka.localdomain>
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
But yep, agreed. I certainly need *something* that can
archive / restore
classic formats to/from modern(-ish!) media.
Shift register + counter + high speed RAM. Could even do it with an FPGA if
you wanted.
Buffering an entire track with 8x oversampling is going to be hellishly
memory intensive though.
3) aren't taking any backups at all! :-)
Aaghh! That reminds me - it's a good year since I backed up the HDD on my
machine... [fx: hard drive starts going kaclunk-kaclunk-kaboooom]
Later.
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