1st stage loader for IMSAI - need ascii to binary conversion

[Richard A. Cini]

On 2/25/08 9:40 PM, "David Griffith" <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:

> This paper tape fiddling made me wonder if anyone ever made a cassette
> tape interface that emitted RS232 signals and looked to the computer like
> a paper tape reader/writer.
> 

Isn't that what the 88-ACR board did? I'd have to pull the book, but IIRC,
it was an audio processing board connected to an SIO board. That's why the
MITS Absolute Tape Format worked -- the format of the paper tape and
cassette were the same but the media was different.


Rich

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