Tomita[WAS]Re: elp

[Jim Patchell]

Dan Gendreau wrote:

>
> If you give me a wav file of it, I can probably decode it for you. I managed
> to reverse engineer the MC202 tape save format uning cooledit and some
> custom C++ code.
>
> I dunno what the heck TARBEL is. Sounds like an anagram to me... Its
> probably just FM encided serial data...
>
> -Dan G.

    Well, I can see what I can do to about making a wav file.  I will have to
dig up the old cassette tape.

    TARBEL either marks me as an old guy (guilty) or you as a young guy.  Most
of the home computers from the 1975->1977 era used the old Kansas City Standard
(Hey, the brain cell that remembered that came back to life :-) ), which would
record data onto a standard cassette player at 300 baud.  Dang slow.  I can
remember loading baisc into my old Polymorphic Polly88, took about a half hour.
The TARBEL interface ran at 1200 baud.  It was more expensive.  By the time I
decided I could afford it, floppy disks were all the rage, so I never got one.
If I remember correctly, Tarbel was the first, there were also many imitators.

    -Jim