Recent Finds & Thoughts - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Nov 1998

...
 > 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. 
 My knowledge of the PETs is limited.  What would this setup do that would
 inhibit recording to CD? 
Not so much inhibit, but make it less useable.  I understood the idea as:
instead of plugging your home computer into a tape deck, how about a CD
player?  Surely just the lead will be different?  In which case, let's
archive all those tapes at a dozen C10 tapes to a CD...

With the PET and VIC families, it's not just a different lead, it's an
(admittedly llittle) circuit...

Philip.