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Article #20Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
From: Phil Hoff
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 16:49
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 16:49
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doriang@microsoft.com (Dorian Garson) wrote: > > Proposal: Is it possible to write an app that could capture programs & > data from an old computer's cassette interface via a sound card? I remember reading in an old Pirate's Handbook that duplicating Commodore tapes by Audio means was very unreliable. To get a reliable copy, you had to load the program and save it back out, and that only worked for unprotected software. I can't help but wonder if an audio readout from tape to a sound card would not suffer from the same problem.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!usenet From: Phil Hoff <phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.tandy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines... Date: 5 Feb 1996 16:49:23 GMT Organization: California State University, Chico Message-ID: <4f5cej$ql2@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> References: <4etnnl$4fj@news.microsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hoff.ecst.csuchico.edu