A little OT: Google

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Tony Duell wrote:
>>Fred Cisin wrote:
>>
>>>5150 cassette  (DRIVE is available, interface isn't)
>>
>>Nah, comes on ebay once a week.
> 
> 
> Hang on, the format of the 5150 cassette recording is given in the 
> TechRef. Now I've not tried this, and I've not got the hardware to do it, 
> but surely you could play the tape on a normal audio recorder into a 
> modern PC soundcard and analyse the signals in software. A modern PC 
> should be easily fast enough

A lot of emulators for 8-bit machines do this.  I can't see it being 
difficult to work out for the 5150.

What *is* a cool hack is software that will turn sysex dumps for old 
synths that support patch storage on tape *and* sysex into tape tones, 
and vice-versa.  Alesis Freeloader springs to mind.

Gordon.