Homebrew Drum Computer (magnetic heads)

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 08:36:16 CST 2007


Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>> My initial idea didn't use reels,  and wasn't particularly concerned with 
>> being able to change tapes,  I just wanted some nontrivial amount of storage 
>> to be available to me,  and came up with (assuredly totally unrealistic) 
>> numbers for not all that many feet of tape.  Maybe as much as *gasp!* a half 
>> a million bytes or so!  :-)
> 
> Did any company ever actually produce a storage product that used
> 8-track carts (or indeed broadcast carts)?  Did it work?

Couldn't the sounds written to Digicart be considered data?

Peace...  Sridhar


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