Re: Many questions about cassette tapes

[Brian Bernstein <brian.bernstein@gmail.com>]

I never had any luck with the cassette port but my experience was always during the Disk ][ and later days.

I can point out two interesting uses of the cassette ports that I've seen:

1. The Voice from Muse (which was probably based on Tog's program) allowed you to do basic 1-bit sampling for replay through the speaker.

2. Diversi-Dial was like an IRC chat system where you stuck 300 baud modems (Micromodem II or AppleCat) into every slot. You could increase your number of lines by using a parallel card to link two machines together and get a total of 12 ports instead of 7. The cassette port thing here was that you could run an audio wire between the machines to keep the clocks in sync (simple pulse). Neat.

Never heard of anything more sophisticated than that, though.