A92: Re: discovery
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A92: Re: discovery
Niklas Brunlid schrieb:
> >Third, a tape deck is not engineered to the same specs as, say,
> >a PC tape backup system, much as an audio CD player could not be
> >converted into a CD-ROM drive. If the tape slips even a little bit, or
> >the resolution is too poor, etc. you are screwed!
>
> Actually, if I recall correctly, you could buy some cables and a card
> to connect the C64 to a regular audio CD player and load games from
> it, much like you did with the cassette player. Of course, the C64
> used regular audio tapes, and it wasn't anywhere near the amounts of
> data used by data backup tapes, but nevertheless...
>
> Just nitpicking a bit - I'm just annoyed because I can't find a TI-92
> Plus module here in Sweden ;-)
Well, we in Europe got to wait, my distributor today was told that it would
another two weeks before he could sell them( Germany ) A.K.
>
> Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
> PQF Quote follows:
>
> If you take the small view, the universe is just something small and round,
> like those water-filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you
> shake them. Although, unless the ineffable plan is a lot more ineffable
> than it's given credit for, it does not have a large plastic snowman at the
> bottom.
> -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
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