PrinceGaz wrote:
Hey, the ZX Spectrum (the finest 8-bit machine made) stored data
using monaural audio. It averaged about 1500bps, not exactly
super fast, but faster than the ZX81 which was only about 300bps.
*cough* Excuse me! Best 8 bit machine? No way! Not as far as Data storage was
OT i know, but.. :)
I've had a parallel port zip drive for just over a year now - it's used a
couple of
times a week at uni, transported about a fair bit (in a proper case, but
that's not a lot of protection), and the disks are often carried about
uncased.
I've not had a single problem, except
I'm on my 3rd zip drive (not problems with the drive)
sold the first one to a friend (SCSI ZIP 100)
Still using the second and third one
one is a 100 the other is a new 250
never had a problem with any of them..
the one I sold my buddy is still using...
The reports I read about the click of
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999
| I gues somebody who stored his mail on minidisc and send it to MD-L?
Nah. Just the stupidity of a Reply-To header pointing at a mailing list
making it difficult to send a reply to the
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999
| 2) I think it would be possible to store data on a audio disc using the
|analog interface.. Use two frequencies, one for '0' and one for '1'.
You do not remember the days when personal
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999
| 2) I think it would be possible to store data on a audio disc using the
|analog interface.. Use two frequencies, one for '0' and one for '1'.
You do not
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Ralph Smeets wrote:
You do not remember the days when personal computers used monaural audio
cassette recorders for data storage, do you. :)
Then again, a modem -- MOdulator-DEModulator works the same way, using
analog tones to represent the bit stream.
Well,
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Subject: Re: MD: MD data conversion
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999
| 2) I think it would be possible to
currently i am involved in a research project in my computer engineering
studies to allow a home audio md unit (je510 initially... same process for
others) to store data and audio on the same disc.. if this conversion was
patented and fairly cheap, do you all feel there is a market for this? it
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