26 Nov
1998
26 Nov
'98
4:24 a.m.
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998 Philip.Belben(a)pgen.com wrote:
Worse still if you're using an audio CD. The CD
player will be filtering
according to what's best for the human ear, not what's best for the
computer.
Does this matter? Most tape recorders used back in the day were also
optimized for use with the human ear, so I would imagine the computers
that utilized them as storage were designed with that in mind. Kick me if
I am wrong but it just seems logical to me that a CD today would work just
as well (if not better) than a cassette recorder of yesteryear. Were the
specialized "data" recorders any different from a standard cassette
player?
PS PET and many later C= machines have one more
problem: they didn't use
standard audio cassette machine, but one with a special Commie board in it
and a custom interface.
This may be the answer to my question.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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