On 2/25/08 9:40 PM, "David Griffith" <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
This paper tape fiddling made me wonder if anyone ever
made a cassette
tape interface that emitted RS232 signals and looked to the computer like
a paper tape reader/writer.
Isn't that what the 88-ACR board did? I'd have to pull the book, but IIRC,
it was an audio processing board connected to an SIO board. That's why the
MITS Absolute Tape Format worked -- the format of the paper tape and
cassette were the same but the media was different.
Rich
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