Audio Cassette formats; what about ADAM?

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Nov 25 22:44:05 1998

< What about the ADAM computer from Coleco??? It uses a digital tape that
< holds (around) 256K or so... (Never set mine up yet).
<
< Is there any way you could run that thang thru an audio player and have
< PC routine re-digitalize it, or are you stuck with read a thing and
< serial-send it over to another PC?

No! It's digital saturation like a floppy and the encoding is to the
flux reversal timing.

Adam is digital stauration recording like a floppy only slower, audio
tape is audio frequency/phase change and the medium is the linear portion
of the BH curve. They are very different from each other.

Allison
Received on Wed Nov 25 1998 - 22:44:05 GMT

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