W dniu 15.07.2024 o 14:35, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:19:52 +0000, Timothy Sipples wrote:
...
Drifting even further afield, ...
Many early personal computers used Compact Cassettes
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape> for program and
data storage, often using inexpensive audio recorders as
drives.
Was the format standard? Did they penetrate the IBM world?
Yes, there was informal standard named after some radio station - Kansas
City Standard
Typical transfer and density: 300-2400 bps.
BTW: Some radio station in Poland used to transmit computer programs
over regular audio channel.
It was for 8-bit machines like ZX Spectrum or Atari 65XE.
Copyright was not an issue because computer copyright law did not exist
at the time. :-)
However if you want to see really weird media solution search for
stringy tapes.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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