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Re: What was the first Apple computer to have built in audio?

Subject: Re: What was the first Apple computer to have built in audio?
From: Alec McKenzie <find@sig.below>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:50:42 +0000
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 Bob Blaylock <BobHatesSpam@Blaylock.to> wrote:

>   Am I the only one who remembers that Apple ][ computers, from the very 
> beginning, were equipped to store and retrieve programs and data from a 
> standard audio tape recorder?

No, you're not the only one.

> ï¿½ï¿½On some occasion, I wrote a set of machine-language routines that 
> could sample and store sound from the cassette input, and play it back 
> out the speaker.ï¿½ The sound quality was crappy, but it was adequate to 
> record a short bit of speech, and play it back understandably.

I did exactly the same myself, and found the playback quite good 
enough for speech.

-- 
Alec McKenzie
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References:
- What was the first Apple computer to have built in audio?
  - From: Bible John <john.doggett@x-files.gov>
- Re: What was the first Apple computer to have built in audio?
  - From: beavis <nobody@nowhere.com>
- Re: What was the first Apple computer to have built in audio?
  - From: Bob Blaylock <BobHatesSpam@Blaylock.to>

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