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It was about a megabyte per cassette tape, depending on the encoding, right (counting both sides)? Doable, with lots of tape swapping, I guess :) Though probab
by tambourine_man 6y ago
It was about a megabyte per cassette tape, depending on the encoding, right (counting both sides)? Doable, with lots of tape swapping, I guess :)
Though probably a shorter version would be nicer
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Forget that, from the Reddit link:
“We end up reading data at about 533KB/sec, and are I/O bound.”
- apricot 6y agoA custom-made cassette reading peripheral card in every slot, and eight cassette players running in parallel at high speed?
- tambourine_man 6y agoI like how you think :)
- ddingus 6y agoLol, this should be done. Dealing with sync issues would be top of the list. Maybe stagger them, so they can be stopped every so often. Reach key data, kill motor, wait, start motor? Or maybe just toggle the motor line quick? Just enough to slow it a little! All kinds of insanity possible. Stereo tapes could possibly deliver 2400 baud x 2. Eight 4,800 baud tapes * 2 minutes 'ish I am coming up with 0.5 to 1MB range numbers :( But I really like this craziness!