Re: Reel-to-reel on //e?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

MJMahon writes ...
> 
> Rubywand responded to Brian Hammack:
> ....
> >
> >     The cable going from the Apple's output to the recorder's Input
> >should not be loaded with a resistor. Usually, too, you want to go in
> >through a 'Line' input. It is too easy to overload a microphone input
> >and get distortion.
> 
> Actually, the Apple's cassette output is attenuated internally by
> a factor of 120, so it _must_ go into a microphone input to get
> an adequate record level.
>

     Thanks for the correction. A quick check of the RS and GE portable
cassette recorders we used shows that there isn't any place _but_ the
"mic" input to send the signal! (The 'Line Input' stuff must have come
from memories of using Jim Butterfield's "HyperTape" to record KIM stuff
on the Sony reel-to-reel.)



> .... 
> Have fun.  I used cassettes for three years, carefully noting the
> tape counter readings for the dozens of programs I recorded on
> each cassette.  It worked beautifully for me, and provided a
> kind of natural "audit trail" of previous versions, too!  ;-)
>

     We've still got a box of cassettes with notations like that-- sort
of the 'ultimate backup'!


Rubywand