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Date   : Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:27:04 +1100
From   : station240@... (paul aslin)
Subject: Kansas City Standard (was: Electron Ferranti ULA)

> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:47:33 +1100
> From: awilliams@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Kansas City Standard (was: Electron Ferranti ULA)

> You may have to adjust the azimuth on the tape head, some tapes were
> pretty fussy about being played back on the tape deck they were written
> on.
>
> It makes me wonder if you could wire two such systems back to back and
> use the Beeb as a virtual tape player. You could probably assemble code
> for a KIM-1 on a BBC and save it between machines over the cassette
> ports. I am guessing that this has probably been done to death already
> with PC sound cards.
>
> I am not rushing of to try that though.

Not to mention the old car Cassette radio adapters, which are nothing more 
than a tape head pointed at the radio's tape head and a bit of electronics
inside a cassette. Point is this would work with anything. If you clever
I'm sure the two tape players could be replaced with some sort of bi directional
amplifier.
                                         
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