Timeline for Did any microcomputers back in the day accelerate standard-cassette performance
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| Mar 18, 2021 at 15:43 | comment | added | KenD | I believe the reason for a mono instead of stereo signal was that some cheapo CD players of the era only had one DAC, and "faked" stereo by decoding only one channel at a time. The human ear couldn't tell the difference, but your Spectrum could - so they fell back to using mono. | |
| May 15, 2016 at 20:02 | comment | added | supercat | I wrote a boot loader in 1994 to fetch Atari 2600 code from a PC serial port plugged into the joystick port (via adapter) after I bought Harry Dodgson's monitor cartridge. His monitor included such functionality in 7800 mode, but I think he only used 2400 baud. I forget what I used, but was probably at least 19200. Even 57600 baud should be achievable without difficulty if code is doing nothing but waiting for incoming bits. | |
| May 15, 2016 at 11:48 | history | edited | mcleod_ideafix | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 175 characters in body |
| May 15, 2016 at 11:42 | history | answered | mcleod_ideafix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |