Tim Shoppa wrote:
>
> > On my web site, I express my hopes to develop software to help rescue
> > old cassette data by digitizing the tapes. I'm still hunting for
> > specifications of the old formats.
>
> OK, I'll build a web site this weekend that describes the Kansas-city
> and Tarbell standards. Will this be useful?
>
> > I just got a box full of Altair-era cassettes on loan. I plan to
> > digitize them now and rescue the data later.
>
> If you wanted to make some digitized fragments available, I'd gladly
> make some guesses as to the format.
>
> I think your approach (digitize now, analyze later) is 100% the right
> decision for old media. The more oversampling you do, the better!
An excellent idea. Disk is now cheap, tape is now fading.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Fri Jan 30 1998 - 16:14:01 GMT