Re: LZ: Cassette system
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At 09:42 PM 9/9/96 +0000, you wrote:
>I've made some thinking on this cassette-storage system and made some
>sort of schematics for hardware necessary for tape input/output.
>Someone would have to make a program (with Zshell, of course) that
>would listen to link port and also send appropriate noises into it..
>One quite big problem is, I guess, that how one could generate a
>string within Zshell, 'cause cassette I/O-program would be impossible
>to code with TI-basic.
>Data in the cassette could be saved in this way:
>first there would be a constant tone, which would be used for
>compensating speed differences on separate calcs or tape players.
>then tone should be modulated somehow, and headers etc. then saved as
>this modulated tone.
>
>I shall develop my hardware part a little (draw it with computer) and
>then upload it here. Someone should begin thinking how to make this
>saving-program.
Hold on a second. I thought that you would just store it as a backup.
How can the tape player respond to the tones the calculator makes? I
am sure that the calculator must send some confirmation tones for each
packet sent.
-- Scott Rein
srein@rain.org
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