Will this work with TRS-80?

[Gabriel Knight]

Hi all will this tape recorder :

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=280267247146


work with a TRS-80 Micro Color MC-10 ?
and or a TRS-80 Colour Computer Model 1 - 16k ?


Thanks
GK

 

[yogi]

Hi all will this tape recorder :

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=280267247146


work with a TRS-80 Micro Color MC-10 ?
and or a TRS-80 Colour Computer Model 1 - 16k ?


Thanks
GK

Yes, That will work fine with the MC-10, make sure that the seller
includes the data leed with the CCR-82.
Cheers
Keith

 

[Michael Black]

Yes, That will work fine with the MC-10, make sure that the seller
includes the data leed with the CCR-82.
Cheers
Keith

Of course, there never was anything magic about cassette recorders.
I used what I had, which was the guts of a stereo cassette recorder
that I bought as surplus. Stuck some cheap meters on it to show
level, added a dual pot to the input so I could adjust record levels.
I can't remember if I had a volume control on the output. It was
a lot more flexible than the cheap portable recorders that were sold.

Today, if I was actually saving to cassette, I'd grab an actual cassette
deck at a garage sale, they go for a few dollars.

But even back then, there was nothing magic about the Radio Shack
recorder, one could have used whatever cassette portable they had lying
around.

Michael

 

[Sjouke Burry]

Of course, there never was anything magic about cassette recorders.
I used what I had, which was the guts of a stereo cassette recorder
that I bought as surplus. Stuck some cheap meters on it to show
level, added a dual pot to the input so I could adjust record levels.
I can't remember if I had a volume control on the output. It was
a lot more flexible than the cheap portable recorders that were sold.

Today, if I was actually saving to cassette, I'd grab an actual cassette
deck at a garage sale, they go for a few dollars.

But even back then, there was nothing magic about the Radio Shack
recorder, one could have used whatever cassette portable they had lying
around.

Michael

To add some observations, the cheap recorders worked "better"
than the expensive ones, because the expensive ones had lots of
filters to improve audio, which is not so good for digital info
storage.
Also, if the computer has a start/stop relay for the casette recorder,
try to connect it in sreies with the cassette motor.
The BBC-B and Electron computer for example had such a relay,
which gave the computer control over data block input.

 

[david]

To add some observations, the cheap recorders worked "better" than the
expensive ones, because the expensive ones had lots of filters to
improve audio, which is not so good for digital info storage.

Except, a cassette storage system is not a DAT. It simply records tones
onto the tape.

 

[Sjouke Burry]

Except, a cassette storage system is not a DAT. It simply records tones
onto the tape.

Yes, but you have fast swithcing between frequencies, and high-order
filters can do strange things to the phase relations in the signal,
and most cheap recorders dont bother to treat the output signal very
much, leaving phase relations as they were.
g