Not very related to the high-speed idea, but anyway. Back in 1984 German c't magazine developed a fast tape loader and implemented it for many 6502 and Z80 based home computers. The normal speed was 3600 bit/s, this is slightly faster than turbo tape and also a bit faster than a standard 1541. What makes it interesting here for this discussion is its capability to run at 7200 bit/s, though this speed was reported not to work reliably on most tape decks. But it would be a nice option for recording to CDR, especially with the common file format for at least all the Commodore 8bit machines. Unfortunately most of the implementations seem to be lost somehow, except the C64 one of course, which was mostly known for being used in the Input64 tape magazine. The problem with getting the other implementation is mostly that noone seems to have those old c't issues from 1984 anymore. I once ordered a single article (about a basic Z80 implementation) from a library and it took many weeks to arrive and cost me DM 3. At Heise Verlag it might be faster, but they want DM 5 per article :-( I don't like these options, with perhaps 20 implementations around and some were split over two articles :-( Nicolas - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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