[Coco] Cassete reading

[Luis Fernández]

A tape recorder is ideal monoural and auxiliary input directly to the PC, capture it with windows recorder, is sufficient
My utility CoCoDskUtil can help, but not finished, I can change it at will to accept damaged headers and other problems
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Making  CoCoDskUtilPack V 1.1.3A.zip, Scan magazines and organize maltedmedia
http://cococoding.com/cocodskutil/ Thank Aaron Wolfe
http://www.tandycoco.com Thank Brian Blake and Stephen Fischer
My personal blog: http://www.luis45ccs.blogspot.com, 
Excuse my English, I use google translator, my language is Spanish, I'm Spanish but I live in Venezuela
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> From: ranaur at ranaur.net
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:39:06 -0200
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] Cassete reading
> 
> Hi Folks!
> 
> Anyone here have experience to ressucitate old tapes?
> 
> I have around 100 cassete tapes with CoCo programs that I would like to
> "digitalize".
> Well, many programs I probably can find in the net, but there are some
> programs I made by myself, or maybe I can unbury something lost long ago
> ...
> 
> What are the best programs to use? I have an Windows XP and MacOSX or
> anything virtualboxed.
> 
> The "hardware" I have is an old MSX datacorder and an USB tape player
> (Jansen).
> 
> The tapes are very, very old. And maybe are damaged by the time.
> 
> Should I do some treatment with them before reading? Maybe rewind/FF a
> couple of times before using them?
> 
> Any digital archeology tips?
> 
> I'll put my progress in a spreadsheet, for those who want to follow the
> adventure ...
> 
> https://public.sheet.zoho.com/public/ranaur/trs-80-ranaur-s-cassetes
> 
> Wish me luck!
> 
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