Date   : Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:27:32 +0100 (CET)
From   : anders.carlsson@... (Anders Carlsson)
Subject: Kansas City Standard (was: Electron Ferranti ULA)

James McGill wrote:

> Most of the circuits I can find that deal with cassette recordings
> implement the 300 baud standard, and usually mostly in hardware.

Speaking of which, a while ago I stumbled across the Kansas City
Standard for storing programs on tape. The Wikipedia entry made
hints that Acorn BBC and Electron should have variations thereof.

While I haven't had any opportunity to research further, to which
degree would it be possible to load data (text, probably not
executable programs) from a foreign computer on the Acorns?

I have a couple of other systems also listed on Wikipedia to use
some variant of KCS, but apart from baud rate I'm unsure if they
all use the same frequencies to encode data?

Best regards

-- 
Anders Carlsson