On Thu, 26 Nov 1998 Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com wrote:
> Worse still if you're using an audio CD. The CD player will be filtering
> according to what's best for the human ear, not what's best for the
> computer.
Does this matter? Most tape recorders used back in the day were also
optimized for use with the human ear, so I would imagine the computers
that utilized them as storage were designed with that in mind. Kick me if
I am wrong but it just seems logical to me that a CD today would work just
as well (if not better) than a cassette recorder of yesteryear. Were the
specialized "data" recorders any different from a standard cassette
player?
> PS PET and many later C= machines have one more problem: they didn't use
> standard audio cassette machine, but one with a special Commie board in it
> and a custom interface.
This may be the answer to my question.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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