Date   : Wed, 18 May 1988 08:57:34 PDT (Wednesday)
From   : TReed.ElSegundo@Xerox.COM
Subject: Hardware/Software to read Steno cassettes

I am looking for the hardware/software, to be used on a CPM system, that can
read the cassettes produced by a court reporters stenographic machine.

I have seen such hardware/software for the PC but none for CPM.  I would
like to
find a ready made package.  I could, I suppose, run down the hardware and then
write the software but if it is available somewhere and the price is right, why
bother.

So, does anyone know if it exist, commercially or otherwise?

Thanks,
Terry Reed


Date: Thursday, 12 May 1988  07:41-MDT
From: necntc!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@HUSC6.HARVARD.EDU (David Goodenough)
Subject: how to do it

> Long article about assembly & linkage with odd offsets.

If I may be permitted to throw in my 2 cents worth here, I have an assembler /
linker pair that will place anything you like anywhere you like. For example
it has created code to be burnt into an EPROM (code and initialised data at
0000H, uninitialised data at 4000H), or a BIOS (everything starting at
0F200H), or if you leave it alone, it produces a regular CP/M flavour .COM
file: starting at 0100H. It's all done with flags to the linker: basically
when you link, you just tell the linker where to put everything, and voila -
there you are.

CAVEAT - It is *_NOT_* compatible with M80, so sources will need to
be massaged, but I use it all the time, and it does work.

P.S. I wrote it myself, so I have no problem at all about shipping a copy
to anyone who is interested.
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