[Coco] Dorsett Educational Tapes
Melanie and John Mark Mobley
johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 22:55:09 EDT 2016
Kevin Savetz is a podcaster. He is on ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast. He
has interviewed about 200 people. Kevin is trying to preserve some audio &
data tapes, and needs help from the CoCo community to test his digitized
files.
The file format may be unique. I think the right and left audio track is
set up to play audio voice instructions on one track, and the other track is
data. The data will draw a picture using ASCII Art. A question will be
asked and the user will see the picture and respond to the question using
the computer keyboard. I think special hardware was required to decode the
tapes on a Tandy Color Computer. Kevin has recorded some episoides on the
podcast where he describes the system.
You can reach him at antic at ataripodcast.com if you want to help.
-John Mark Mobley
From: Keven Savetz
I have digitized several rare cassette tapes for the CoCo from Dorsett
Educational Systems. Need help from the CoCo community to test them/get them
working. Atari folks have gotten the Atari version of these working.
https://archive.org/details/TRS-80ColorComputerDorsettEducational
Maybe you can put the word out in your newsletter/social media.
Kevin Savetz
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