a tape back up program

Ryan_moure · 07-25-2004, 12:42 AM

My dad told me about when he got his first computer his storage was on a cassette recorder hooked up to the equivalent of sound port.
Is there any Linux utility that will send sound out through the sound card to a tape recorder. to create a tape backup that I could use for kicks?

Ryan_moure

win32sux · 07-25-2004, 01:36 AM

are you sure you're dad wasn't using magnetic tape??

=)

there's lots of magnetic tape drives out there... they are used for backups a lot, even though they started to be used a very long time ago, back in the day, in fact, that's where the utility tar comes from... "tape archive"...

1337 Twinkie · 07-25-2004, 12:04 PM

I don't see any reason why you couldn't use an audio casset for storage. After all, sound looks exactly the same as any other data to a computer.

Ryan_moure · 07-25-2004, 03:01 PM

the only difference between the the special tape and tape drives is fault tollerance and being integrated so you don't have to be the on to press play rewind and what not.
When the first computers showed up in radio shack a floppy drive was an extra feature the box came with a tape drive. They threw in a portable casette recorder to save your programs to. I'm just wondering if anyone had seen any program out there for share ware or cheap.
Ryan_moure

win32sux · 07-25-2004, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 1337 Twinkie
all, sound looks exactly the same as any other data to a computer.

yeah, but that's DIGITAL sound...

the sound from a cassette tape is analog and would need to be converted into "1s and 0s" (using a analog-to-digital converter) before the computer can see it as "data"...