Computer Audio Tape Formats - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Dec 2002

On Dec 17, 15:58, Sellam Ismail wrote:
...
  On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com wrote:

  I think the Commodore PET uses modified CUTS. It
records each block
 twice, which is why it's relatively slow, but also pretty robust. 
 If it records each block twice, and one block is bad, which of the two do
 you trust?

 (Or is there a checksum involved too?) 
The one with the good checksum, I expect.  There is a check of some sort,
but I don't know the details.

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