Re: Apple II cassette drive.

[Charles Richmond <richmond@plano.net>]

Paul Grammens wrote:
> 
> Scott Alfter <salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org> wrote
> 
> >
> > How about this idea: hook the tape-out jack on your II (or other old
> > computer) to the mic-in jack on your other computer's sound card, save the
> > program squawks in a WAV file, and then burn that onto an audio CD?  (Come
> > to think of it, that'd be good for archiving the CoCo programs I have on
> > tape already...wish I had thought of this sooner.  It'd also provide
> faster
> > access than tape...just skip to the track you want and begin loading.)
> >
> 
> That's a good idea too. You could just play any tapes you might have, run
> them into the line-in jack, record and label the programs.
>
I do *not* think that would work.  The computer gets cassette input form the
recorder's earphone jack.  The earphone is typically 8 ohms...whereas the line-in
is almost surely medium impedance (say 10,000 ohms).  However, tape-out from
the computer to mic-in on the sound card would probably fly.

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