> >I have a lot of the kid's computers, (Atari, Commodore, CoCo, etc), which
> >I am trying to keep alive. Does anyone know if I can substitute high
> >quality music tapes in place of computer tapes? Or where I can still
> >find computer cassette tapes for sale?
> Back in the early 80's I didn't even use high quality music tapes, instead
> I used the cheapest cassette tapes I could find. Never had any problem,
> except for tape wastage since I'd only use about the first five minutes of
> the tape. It was easiest to try to limit it to one program per tape.
> The only problem along these lines that I experienced was a tape that
> someone copied on a home stereo system. Part of the time it would load,
> part of the time it wouldn't.
> BTW, the computer I used was a Commodore VIC-20 with the original Cassette
> Deck.
The Question isn't as stupid as it sounds on first sight.
Back in the ol' days (Old Guys, arn't we ?) I had some
problems with high quality tapes in the usual cheap
cassette drives/recorders - Tape and head have to be
in an aprobiate range - so you can't just use any material.
Now, I hasn't been a problem back then, since most times
I also did by the ceapest of the ceap - only when in urgend
need (lets say a weeks hack without saving, and no other
cassette available I took high quality material - some of
my old music recordings still have data inbetween - and
of course I got problems ... (once I even _bought_ a cassete
at DM 20 (~USD8 at this time ~1980), since the shop had no
cheap ones (usualy DM 1-3)).
So, if you want to use modern cassetes, best practice would
be to use an acording actual recording device - no problem
when using computers with standard connectors, while for
a Como, you might need to build some cables and use an original
C2N as hook up.
For old casettes I would suggest _not_ to buy them -
Computer cassetes have been cheap materials, in most case
they have been stored under poor conditions and as a
result, the material may be already damaged.
Gruss
h.
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Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 08:56:32 BST