Memodyne M80 Digital Cassette Recorder

[Brad H]

Yes thanks!  I was looking at that.  However, the model show there is
slightly different than mine.. mine doesn't have the keypad on the front.
It only has a power and reset key.  I assume as Chuck suggested to me
previously there is a way to pass commands via serial to get it to do
something.. but I've not found any info on what you need.

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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Sean Caron
Sent: Monday, May 9, 2016 1:34 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Memodyne M80 Digital Cassette Recorder

On Mon, 9 May 2016, Brad H wrote:

> Hi there,
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> I have a Memodyne M-80 Digital Cassette 'Computer' which, in talking 
> to people more experienced than me, seems to be just a digital 
> cassette recorder.  Googling around there seems to be very little info 
> out there, although one paper written about their use with scientific 
> equipment detailed some of the bits triggered to make the recorder 
> operate.  Mine has several cards including a Z80 CPU card and serial
input/output.
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> I was wondering if anyone out there was familiar with these and/or had 
> a manual? I read these were even used sometimes with SWTPC 
> terminals/computers, so I'd be interested to see if I can get it running.
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> Thanks!!
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> Brad
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I found some interesting information about it in the Appendices of this
technical report:

http://misclab.umeoce.maine.edu/education/VisibilityLab/reports/SIO_82-27.pd
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Apparently the product was used in several documented data acquisition
applications over the course of the early '80s.

Best,

Sean