[Coco] Hi-Speed Tape Interface (Ebay)

[Arthur Flexser]

To me, a very interesting thing is that the guy has NINE units available.
But the label on the thing is handwritten, with no manufacturer name.
Prototypes for a product that was never actually sold???

Art
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:

> At 10:39 AM 3/23/2011, you wrote:
>
>> Never seen one of these before:
>>
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/TRS80-Color-Computer-Hi-Speed-Tape-interface-6000-baud-/330544306915
>>
>> Save & Load tape files 4x faster than built in Cass interface?
>>
>
>
> I've never seen that kind of kit, but one can easily double the cassette
> port speed by doing the "2mhz" poke and using a digital recorder.  I
> discovered this first a long time ago using a Sony MD Walkman (Mini Disc
> unit), then tried it a few years ago on a small voice recorder that has an
> Audio In jack.
>
> You can also try reducing the tape sine wave table in half in addition to
> using the high speed poke and see where that gets you.  The delay between
> data blocks might have to be fiddled with to get this working for block type
> files.
>
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