>From the Sometimes-We-Didn't-Even-Have-1s" Dept., a tour de force on
David Beazely's blog about encoding Kansas City Standard audio using
Python and Matplotlib. To drive a Superbooard II...you remember them,
don't you?
"On many old machines, cassette output is encoded using something
called the Kansas City Standard. It's a pretty simple encoding.
A 0 is encoded as 4 cycles of a 1200 Hz sine wave and a 1 is
encoded as 8 cycles of a 2400 Hz sine wave.
[...]
"Python has a built-in module for reading WAV files. Combined with
Matplotlib you can easily view the waveform.
>>> import wave
>>> [6 more lines of Python]
Waveform plot (!)
[...much more...no kidding...pix..."LOAD" on the Superboard II...]
http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/08/using-python-to-encode-cassette.html
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P.S. He ends with:
"The power of Python never ceases to amaze me--once again a problem
that seems like it might be hard is solved with a short script using
nothing more than a single built-in library module and some basic
data manipulation. Next on the agenda: A Python script to decode WAV
files back into text files."
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