[ILUG] Re: OT: Data to Audio Tape

Martin Feeney martin at tuatha.org
Tue Sep 4 10:10:24 IST 2001


On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 22:39:46 Ronan Cunniffe wrote:

> BTW: Know where the magic number 44100 Hz comes from?  The early
> guys doing digital audio used *video* tape.  So unless in possession a
> genuine Cloak of Analogue Wizardry (+4 to Signal Processing, +9 vs.
> Flames), we should probably take the hint.

Speaking of this, check out http://linbacker.sourceforge.net/ which uses
this device: http://www.danmere.com/backer/intbacker.htm

These pop up every so often in Game or EB. I bought one myself, but never
bothered getting around to doing a proper scripted backup. The driver and
utils do work, though. Must write scripts over the next few days.

Martin.




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