Preserving ancient media - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 May 2003

Answering my own question, (and if anyone else is interested), there is a
utility here: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~edsa/#kcs that will make WAV
files ine Kansas City Standard, or CUTS standard, from any input file, that
can be recorded to a tape. It can also decode audio WAV files into data.
Comes with documentation too, and looks pretty good.

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: David Holland [mailto:dholland@woh.rr.com]
Sent: 17 May 2003 02:36
To: Classic Computer Talk
Subject: RE: Preserving ancient media

The following MIGHT be a good place to start:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Ridge/9965/

ZXTAPE 3.0   Its directed towards the zx81, but it could 
be applicable to your application.    Dunno. I've a feeling every
computers tape format is different, though.

David

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 03:25, Hills, Paul wrote:
...
  I have quite a bit of software on cassette tapes for
1980s home computers.
 Does anyone know of a simple method (without having to design and build
 myself a dual-tone decoder circuit + write suitable PC software) of getting
...
  this information onto a PC? I guess the home computer
emulator pages on the
...
  web must have done this.

 Maybe I could record it as a WAV file then write a program to decode the
 WAV? Or would MP3 encoding be capable of compressing and reliable expanding
...
  the audio data (MP3 is of course designed to compress
music which these
 squeaks and whistles clearly are not, even if they lie within the audio
 spectrum!).

 paul 