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Floppies, how advanced, I still have a box of C15 cassette tapes with my data from the 1980s on them!
by SixSigma 12y ago
Floppies, how advanced, I still have a box of C15 cassette tapes with my data from the 1980s on them!
- ohjeez 12y agoYeah -- but how would you get the data _off_ those tapes? I have one computer system that's 10 years old (running OS/2) which is wholly unconnected from the computing universe, much less my network. It has floppy drives, a CD player (and no software to burn anything to CD), a SCSI and serial ports. And I've a bunch of data on that system that I'd like to pry off of it, though it'd take a rube goldberg setup to do so... which means I never do get around to doing it.
- SixSigma 12y agoI have a plan, as it happens. I'm going to leverage HTML5 audio processing soon, as a bit of an exercise really, and work on Javascript processing of my 300 baud tape collection, that's why it was in my mind to make the comment. I have my 8 bit computers - ZX81 and BBC Micro still working, for years I have wanted to use my PC audio for data transfer and now I have some time to play at it for a bit. I even have the idea that I might try and connect my ZX81 to the internet in this way, writing a REPL in ZX basic and using the ZX81 as a dumb terminal.