On Thursday 12 March 2009, Ugly Me wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "James Knott" <james.kn...@rogers.com> >To: <users@openoffice.org> >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:12 PM >Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. > >> Robert Hodgins wrote: >> >> Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder.... >> > >> > My Timex Sinclair saved to a tape recorder. Never could get the thing to >> > load a program, though. >> >> Write only storage? ;-) > >WORN - Write Once Read Never. >The Atari 8-bit series had tape decks like that. > Neither had a patent on WORN. The cure was to pitch that 20$ deck in the trash and use one that had honest erase and bias oscillators in it instead of magnets, thereby lowering the tapes background noise about 30db. When folks asked me for some little program that ran on a coco, what they got was a hi bias metal tape, recorded one track only, in a 4 track stereo cassette deck. No one ever reported that it wouldn't load. I'd put 2 or 3 copies on a short cassette and I don't think anyone ever had to use the 2nd or 3rd copy.
I'm surprised you recall those days, they are about 20 years back up the log. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "A dirty mind is a joy forever." -- Randy Kunkee --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
