980's data recorders (as used in Commodore etc) - on topic really.

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Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: Netherlands Posts: 6104	Posted: 07:06am 20 Aug 2021       Just remember the patience you must have writing and reading the tape. And searching for the start of your program when the mechanical counter was offset. I remember pressing "wind" and softly pressing "play" to move the head towards the tape during fast wind, so you could hear the silence between programs to locate the start. And when you where lucky the tape would stay intact.... At 300 baud, that is 30 characters per second. Mauro's last creation would take 4 hours to load (if you had a tape that long)..... Edited 2021-08-20 17:09 by Volhout