The good old days of tape players

Hi, My very first computer was a TI99/4A which I still have. I was in junior high at that time. I couldnt afford to get the disk drive cage as it was more expensive than the computer! Also, single-sided floppy disks were expensive. I remember we used to get double sided floppies and use a hole puncher to punch a similar hole on the left side of the disk and flip it around to use it on the old single-sided floppy drives. A friend of mine, who was an electrical engineer, also bought the TI at the same time I did. Instead of spending some $30-$40 for an interface cable to hook up a tape player to the TI, he fashioned himself his own and built one for me as well. I used my old tape player that had a counter on it to record games and stuff that I typed up from Compute magazine (anyone remember). I used to spend days typing the stuff to get it working. Those were the days and I kind of miss it. Those golden days were great. That got me to think if there was a way to hook up a tape player (cassette) to an IBMPC to mimick it. Has anyone tried this..... Ram -- ,,,, /'^'\ ( o o ) -oOOO--(_)--OOOo------------------------------------- | Ram Meenakshisundaram | Senior Software Engineer | OpenLink Financial Inc | .oooO Phone: (516) 227-6600 x267 | ( ) Oooo. Email: rmeenaks(a)olf.com ---\ (----( )-------------------------------------- \_) ) / (_/