Re: data cassette and robotic arms

2018-01-11 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis wrote: For a time, cassette decks were used as a substitute for punched paper tape in the commercial embroidery business They were supplanted by floppy drive boxes, eventually (e.g. Barudan). And paper tape is still used in that business (all kind of NC

Generic Cassette interfaces (was: data cassette and robotic arms)

2018-01-10 Thread Kelly Leavitt via cctalk
All this talk about computer cassette data got me reminiscing. Back in the late 80's and early 90's I worked programming remote Campbell Scientific data loggers for an environmental engineering group. The device could store well head data for several days and monitor 8 wells from one data

Re: data cassette and robotic arms

2018-01-10 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 01/10/2018 09:27 AM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: > > This looks like fun. > > http://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/decoding-old-data-casette-format > > I'm not associated in any way with this. Most of the commercial/industrial tape cassette drives of the 70s and 80s used standard saturation

data cassette and robotic arms

2018-01-10 Thread David Griffith via cctalk
This looks like fun. http://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/decoding-old-data-casette-format I'm not associated in any way with this. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is