Ed Eastman wrote:
Bible John wrote:the first apple II was before then.Actually, >all< Apple IIs were before then...And just to be totally obnoxious, I was digitizing audio on my stock II+ long before the IIgs came out. Granted 1 bit audio and I had to use an amplifier (boom box) to get the line level...That's right, I had a Boom box A2 peripheral!
Yep, I used my cassette recorder with a microphone to do the same thing in early 1981. I'm sure others did it sooner. 8k samples/second meant 1k bytes per second of recorded 1-bit sound. My first real application of it was a hex dump reader so I could verify listings I had typed in from magazines. ;-) -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."