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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: the poor man's data storage
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 14:34:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 14:34:49 1986
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> 
>                        The Poor Man's Data Storage
> 
> Don't you just hate dumping bits onto a cassette storage medium?  I have a Korg
> Polysix, Poly-800, and a Yamaha RX15, but I never got one of those little
> cheapo cassette recorders until recently.
> 
> The time came when I decided I had to break down and buy a dedicated portable
> cassette recorder.
>
> ... The good part, though, is that now I have more time
> to take out the garbage.
>                        -etan

I've had some problems, but my advice to anyone who doesn't
already have suitable recorder is to either
(1) Hit several garage sales on a Saturday morning.
These little recorders go for about $1 each.  Buy several,
you will be able to get at least one to work.  Use the others
for HO locomotive motors :-)

(2) You want NEW?  Go to Radio Shack and get a "CTR" -series
machine made specifically for home computer use.
These are straight audio machines, but they have a counter
plus switches/buttons for overriding the remote start/stop
and letting you hear the speaker even tho the earphone jack is
plugged into your synth.
The teensy version made for the Micro-Coco was on sale
for $29 or so; the normal-size model is maybe $39.

At least I have a use for those little 5-minute cassettes
I used in the BD (before disk) era.
	mike k