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Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape
Date 2012-08-08 07:08 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2012Aug8.090809@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>The PET and microcomputer cassette interfaces were before my time but
>looking at
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datassette
>
>was interesting.  It was apparently a standard cassette recorder with
>some adc/dac's and a special edge connector.  In particular the article
>doesn't say whether the computer could start and stop the tape transport
>or rewind the tape under software control.  Do you know if that was
>possible?  

IIRC it was not.

- anton
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Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 06:21 -0700
  Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-07 08:44 -0500
  Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-07 14:01 +0000
  Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-07 07:24 -0700
  Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-08-07 15:30 +0000
    Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-08-07 17:36 +0000
  Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-07 11:52 -0700
    Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-07 12:39 -0700
      Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-07 12:55 -0700
        Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-07 22:00 +0200
          Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-08 00:27 -0700
            Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-08 01:26 -0700
              Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-08 02:31 -0700
              Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-08 02:46 -0700
            Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-08 02:23 -0700
              Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-08 10:57 +0000
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-08 04:59 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-08 12:24 +0000
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-08 11:10 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-09 00:13 +0200
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-08 16:05 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-08 17:30 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-09 03:26 +0200
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-09 05:30 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-09 19:21 +0200
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-09 13:30 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-10 01:27 +0200
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape vandys@vsta.org - 2012-08-09 00:32 +0000
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-09 03:33 +0200
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-09 06:00 +0000
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-09 05:26 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-09 13:44 +0000
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-09 10:21 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-09 19:50 +0200
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-09 12:32 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-09 22:07 +0200
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-09 13:58 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-09 17:36 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-10 04:13 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-11 20:27 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-10 15:57 +0000
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-13 05:23 -0700
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-15 15:13 +0000
                Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-15 11:57 -0700
      Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-08 07:08 +0000
        Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-08 06:25 -0700
      Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-08 01:23 -0700
      Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2012-08-08 05:06 -0500
  Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Percy <percival.andrews@gmail.com> - 2012-08-08 21:11 -0700
    Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-08 21:30 -0700
      Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape percival.andrews@gmail.com - 2012-08-08 23:50 -0700
        Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-09 03:54 -0700
          Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-09 09:07 -0700
            Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape chitselb <chitselb@gmail.com> - 2012-08-09 12:20 -0700
  Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Mat <dambere@web.de> - 2012-08-10 13:41 -0700
    Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-08-10 23:54 +0200
      Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape dambere@web.de - 2012-08-10 15:41 -0700
        Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-08-11 01:47 +0200
    Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-11 03:50 -0500
      Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-11 09:03 +0000
        Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-08-11 16:08 -0500
    Re: Implementing virtual memory on cassette tape "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-08-11 21:51 -1000

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