On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jim Battle wrote:
> I've read a half dozen very terse summaries of emulators and such that do
> this, but most work only on really clean tapes. They simply do some DC
> correction, perhaps a bit of filtering, and then time zero crossings and
> decode from there. Have you done something more sophisticated than
> this? Some of the Sol tapes I've looked at are way too corrupted for such
> a simple technique to work.
>
> There are a lot of communication theory ideas that could be applied to the
> problem directly; in addition, the file format is going to have some known
> structure that could be used to help train the receiver and disambiguate
> some cases.
>
> I'd be interested to hear more.
Me too. This is what vintage computer preservation is all about. Dwight
has always been one on the leading edge when it comes to this.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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