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From: jmfbahciv <See.ab...@aol.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Kodak Electronic Camera from 1975
Date: 2 Nov 2012 13:59:55 GMT
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Walter Bushell wrote:
> In article <PM0004CD6F49F6A...@aca357df.ipt.aol.com>,
>  jmfbahciv <See.ab...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Morten Reistad wrote:
>> > In article <k6rgev$vv...@speranza.aioe.org>,
>> > Bill Marcum  <b...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> >>On 10/30/2012 08:57 AM, Morten Reistad wrote:
>> >>> There was even an adapter for the game port in an IBM PC, but ISTR this
>> was
>> >>> by a third party.
>> >>>
>> >>The original IBM PC had a DIN socket for a cassette recorder. I think
>> >>TRS-80 computers used the same plug, and the cassette only worked in ROM
>> >>BASIC.  I don't think any PC software was sold on cassettes.
>> >
>> > That was another analogue interface to a bog standard audio interface.
>> >
>> > A small, nerdy FM radio station in Oslo actually broadcast some
>> > games by piping the saves from a PC straight on the air.
>>
>> Now that is kewl.
>>
>> >
>> > It worked amazingly well.
>> >
>> > However, the CBM/PET/VIC/C64 etc interface is a fully digital
>> > one, with 5 pins; ground, +5v, motor, read, write, and key-sense.
>> >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
>> >
>> > And it interrupts once per bit.
>>
>> OMG....That means I'd have crocheted an entire afghan to load
>> an EXE.
>>
>> /BAH
>
> By the way when was the restriction on .EXE files raised from 32K?

I didn't know there was a restriction.  What machine are you asking
about?

/BAH