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From: khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Question for 800XL experts
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 19:16:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 19:16:48 1987
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Reply-To: khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Erazm J. Behr)
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Keywords: Atari Mac transfer
Summary: plea for help !!!


   Hello ATARI-land; I'm new to this group, and I don't even have
an Atari (!) [please, no flames], so my request may be very
naive, silly or worse...
   A friend of mine, who is completely shut off from the marvels
of information age due to the part of our world he lives in, just
got an Atari 800XL. My conjecture is that he would like to get
some freeware/shareware for it - he was tactful enough not to ask
me explicitly. Since I have access to all kinds of BBS, networks
etc, I should be able to get a lot of nice stuff for him.
   So where's the problem, you may ask? Elementary, Watson - I
am a Macintosh type, so I would be downloading all these goodies
into my Mac+, and there is an obvious question of how to
transfer a Mac text file to an 800XL medium. Now my main question:
what is the format in which the 800XL likes data to be stored on
tape? If it is the TI/99A-like FSK modulation, I could probably
write a trivial program that would force my Mac to simulate an
Atari output via a sound synthesiser & the speaker jack - I'd
then record this & send a cassette to my buddy. Does it hold
water? If it does, I'd be eternally grateful for any info/pointers
on the subject (as far as tape format goes, I'd obviously need
both the hardware [modulation method] & software [file format] side
of the story.
   Thank you very much in advance. This thing may not be of general
interest, so please E-mail me at khayo@MATH.UCLA.EDU (regardless
of what the header may say - our news software screws that up on
occasion).
                            Eric Behr