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- From: ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk (A.R. Duell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.tandy,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 19:20:51 GMT
- Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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- rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk (Bob Manners) writes:
-
-
- >> ???? Vic-20 (may not be readable on standard casstte recorder)
- >> ???? C-64 (may not be readable on standard casstte recorder)
-
- >Should be readable. There was a kit I remember from a few years ago to
- >use a `normal' cassette machine with the VIC/C64. The only difference
- >with the Commodore version was a fixed record/replay level. I can find
- >out the VIC/C64 pinout for the cassette port if you like.
-
- I designed an interface like that when I got my first (second-hand) PET.
- It works with a Tandy CCR82 (I think) cassette recorder, and even
- correctly handles the play-button-pressed signal without mods to the
- recorder or the PET. I'll dig out the circuit sometime if anybody wants it.
-
- >> ???? IBM-PC
-
- >Not much point? How much was available on tape?
-
- That's surely the easiest machine to transfer tape to PC disk for, isn't
- it. All you need is an original PC motherboard, and a standard disk
- controller and video card. Then a bit of simple software to call the
- relevant BIOS routines to read the tape and write it to disk.
-
- >Robert Manners Osney Laboratory
-
-
-
- --
- -tony
- ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk
- The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill
-