On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Ralph Smeets wrote:
> > You do not remember the days when personal computers used monaural audio
> > cassette recorders for data storage, do you. :)
> >
> > Then again, a modem -- MOdulator-DEModulator works the same way, using
> > analog tones to represent the bit stream.
>
> Well, I know that my data-recorder for my MSX computer used 1200 Hz
> for '0' and 2400 Hz for '1'. All those 'turbo' charging programs would
> somehow double, triple, quadrople etc. the frequency in order to gain
> a higher speed.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph -> Pieeeep, crhhh, piep piep piep pip pip pip piep piep pip pip
> piep chhhr... (*&)(_)(@#$&*( tape broken.....
yeah, i remember my TI99 and playing montezuma's revenge on it...ahh, the
memories. fire up the 99, hit play on the tape drive to load the game, go
watch a half-hour sitcom, come back, wait for the game to finish loading
for a minute or two, then play. fun. ;)
*
####
a disturbance in a system. ####
laerm. @voicenet.com ##:#
calm down my heart/don't beat so fast/don't be afraid
icq:5562209 just once in a lifetime
-----------------------------------------------------------------
To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word
"unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
