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Originally Posted by lesmw0sec
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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki
Surprised that nobody has yet mentioned that other big use of tapes in the 1980s, loading computer programs.
Your ZX81 or Commodore 64 was nothing without a shoebox style cassette player so you could load up Frogger or one of the flight sim games that were popular back then.
"Press Play on tape"
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Used them with my Nascom setup. The only thing was that I stripped an old deck and provided my own electronics to achieve NRZ recording, which was much more reliable due to the tape saturation, rather than rely on the audio decode. |
I also used cassette recorders to record and load programs for my expanded Nascom 1.
The default speed of 300 baud was dismally slow so I upgraded the tape interface to a Cottis/Blandford high speed interface (basically copying a construction article in Wireless World I think).
Getting it to run reliably at 2,400 baud was tricky, found it ran best using my only Hi -Fi deck at the time a Aiwa 1250, on a good day could get it to run at its max speed of 4,800 baud.
Many years ago I sold the Aiwa which I really regret now, it was only a budget deck, but I loved the styling and it gave really good results.
David