Re: Apple II cassette drive.

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Charles Richmond <richmond@plano.net> wrote

> > 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.
>

I would think you can feed a low-impedance signal into a high impedance
device, no problem. It's the other way around that doesn't work- a low
impedance device will load down a high impedance source.
-Paul