[ILUG] Re: OT: Data to Audio Tape

Declan Grady declan at declan.nuvotem.com
Mon Sep 3 12:29:46 IST 2001


On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:14:37PM +0100, Steffen Higel mentioned:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:30:19AM +0100, Niall O Broin articulated:
> > Ah, children - we put those times behind us 20 years ago, with the BBC
> > micro, the Commodore 64 and the Spectrum. Audio tape is an atrocious data
> > storage mechanism.

..And dont forget the good old zx81, which was 20 quid cheaper if you soldered it together yourself !

> 
> Bah! How dare you belittle my childhood. I spent most of it sitting in
> front of my CPC6128 waiting for those damn tapes to load. :-(
> 

.. And they's get to within 30 seconds of being loaded, and give a damned tape error !


Declan


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