data cassette and robotic arms

On 01/10/2018 09:27 AM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: Most of the commercial/industrial tape cassette drives of the 70s and 80s used standard saturation recording, not audio recording. I remember a dual-deck Techtran drive that I was very fond of. It could run up to 9600 bps and do searches as well as tape-to-tape copying. I'm occasionally contacted by folks with old EDM rigs, like the Mitsubishi DWC-90H, looking for help. Those took an external cassette drive. Fortunately, there's an outfit that offers a PC-based solution to supply the tape deck functionality. For a time, cassette decks were used as a substitute for punched paper tape in the commercial embroidery business They were supplanted by floppy drive boxes, eventually (e.g. Barudan). --Chuck