Tomita and Tarbel

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 If anyone's interested, here's a great Tomita site:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~cloud/tomita/index.html

 Here's the direct page to the Bermuda Triangle album. 
http://homepage.eircom.net/~cloud/tomita/index.html

 It's really great to see all the fans here..

  Cheers,
 Andrew Sanchez


 http://homepage.eircom.net/~cloud/tomita/recordings/bermuda.html

In a message dated 9/6/00 2:08:33 PM Central Daylight Time, 
RMcDonald at wireone.com writes:

> I am trying to remember what format the Apple II used- I think it is Tarbel
>  FSK.
>  If so, I have several working Apple II's- I could try to load the code on
>  the album and see what happens.
>  The problem is what is the code? is it a program or ascii data? and if it 
is
>  a program, is it written in Integer BASIC,
>  AppleSoft, TRS-80 BASIC or perhaps assembler? I will look at the album
>  again, but I seem to remember Isao was sketchy on the subject. If it is
>  machine code, then what is the starting address?
>  Now you guys have my curiosity peaked, dammit. 
>  Rory
>  
>  >     Also, there is supposed to be a "message" on the disk.  It is
>  > encoded in one of the popular cassette formats that computers
>  > used back in those days to save data.
>  > It was not the 300 baud one, can't believe I can't even remember
>  > the name of that one, but one that saved at 1200 baud......
>  > OK, I just went and grabed the record.
>  > It is encoded in the TARBEL system.
>  
>  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.