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> Cassettes were perfect for 8 bit micros. My Commodore had a cassette reader/writer but I never managed to copy a cassette. I was only a kid and tried hard to
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> Cassettes were perfect for 8 bit micros.
My Commodore had a cassette reader/writer but I never managed to copy a cassette. I was only a kid and tried hard to copy cassettes at my best friend's place (his father had a back then insane Nakamichi stereo rack) but I never succeeded.
Then I discovered 5"1/4 floppy disks and never looked back!
- hakfoo 3y agoI've heard the Commodore mechanism has a signal processing model that's pretty different from an audio deck, even if the tape transport and heads are comparable. I suspect this is a combination of "saving a nickel" and "the characteristics best for nuanced analog audio are irrelevant or worse for data"