Re: LZ: cassette tapes


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Re: LZ: cassette tapes



On Sun, 8 Sep 1996 11:31:09 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Haninger
<ahaning@freenet.columbus.oh.us> writes:
>about all this mem stuff... i think some one already mentioned this 
>but, i
>think this might work. okay, what if you wrote a .bat or .exe or .com 
>file
>or something that would convert a backup of your calc into sound(a wav 
>or
>voc file). and then you made a link plug to go from your sb mic port 
>to a
>tape recorder.(this would probably have to work at 8bit mono for those 
>of
>us with an 8bit mono sb). then, you could get a little $3.00 adapter
>fromradio shack to go to the link port so you could hook your calc to 
>your
>walkman( that would be best for portability) and play the cassette 
>tape and
>have a file that would check the link port and convert the analog 
>sounds to
>binary numbers(you'd probably have to just use different sets of ticks 
>for
>the 0s and 1s) and load the program into ram. then, if there were 
>sounds
>in the program, you'd just unhook the plug, put the adapter on a 
>headphone
>plug, and you're on your way. i'd ***LOVE*** to help in the creation 
>of
>this if it is possible but, i don't know assembly(YET) and so, all i 
>can
>do is say my idea. 
>
Well i know the old commodore 64's had a drive known as the datasette. It
probably had a capacity of around 80k per tape.. but if that was to be
harnessed by the ti, there could be big change. Right now i'm looking
into working on a link between ti's and hp's, and a possible backup ram
connection. However i'm not that knowledgable about this stuff.


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