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From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Re: Need a cassette tape drive.
Message-ID: <3660@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 88 12:58:57 GMT
References: <4417@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> Au contraire; it seems rather likely that he could get it to RECORD data, and
> that PLAYING BACK data is at worst still "up in the air."  I'd say he still
> has a shot at it. 
> 
I have kept out of this discussion basicly because I am lazy.  I know I have
a circuit somewhere that shows how to make just such an interface.  Lazy is
one reason but unnecessary in another reason.  I have seen NEW Atari cassette
devices for about $25 and I'm sure you could pick up an used one for a lot
less.  However, one company used to sell such an interface for about $40
(which is way too high even if you could find one) to use with a regular
tape recorder/player.  I say don't bother, but a used Atari.
>
> And if he succeeds and tells us how he did it, ya know what I'm gonna do?  I'm
> gonna develop some really cool software here at home, at leisure, then save
> it to cassette as a casette-bootable binary, make a special adapter for my 
> Walkman to connect to the Atari SIO port, take the whole shootin' match to
> the local department store's Atari XEGS display area, and quickly upload a 
> sharp-looking showoff demo!  They won't know where the heck it came from,
> unless I specifically tell 'em.  Hehehe.
> 
This is the first practical use I have heard for the above mentioned
interface.  A real stroke of genius!  Good luck Chris.


					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Bell Laboratories
					...att!ihlpe!kimes