digital cassette recorder - ensures your bits stay on the tape

digital cassette recorder Cassette recordings are still the most popular memory for home computers because they offer the cheapest method available. Unfortunately, it is not the most reliable method because a cassette recorder is, after all, intended for processing audio rather than digital signals. The present circuit converts a normal cassette recorder into a digital one with vastly improved data transfer capability without the loss of the audio facility. Most home computers have a cassette recorder interface which usually obeys a simple rule: the cheaper and simpler the computer, the worse the data transfer to the recorder. This only becomes evident, of course, when you "read" a newly loaded program and find that all is not what it"s supposed to be. Why is that? And can anything be done about it? In most computers, a signal is delivered to the interface which is not really suitable for an audio cassette recorder. The ampli- tude of the signal is normally limited to prevent the ...