All this talk about computer cassette data got me reminiscing.
Back in the late 80's and early 90's I worked programming remote Campbell
Scientific data loggers for an environmental engineering group. The device could store
well head data for several days and monitor 8 wells from one data logger. Field techs
(like me) would go around the active sites and download the data from the units onto
cassette tapes using a device like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Campbell-Scientific-Inc-C20-Cassette-Inter…
Here's some technical info on the device:
https://s.campbellsci.com/documents/us/product-brochures/b_c20.pdf
When we got back, the data would be read from cassette into VisiCalc on the TRS-80 model
IIs we used.
Later I wrote a program to read the data into Microsoft multiplan running under Tandy
Xenix. We'd plug the interface into a terminal aux port, open it for reading, then
convert it into a SYLK layout.
Were there other devices that did data transport like that.
Kelly