Sound of data from old computer to tape recorder

[Trainguyxx]

You know, I was born in '91, but my father always had the older computer models and a tape recorder or two. I never did get the drive to save to it, but it's cool to see you did what I wanted to do in the first place!

[opacapaca]

Brings back great memories of learning the 6502. I had a Superboard II.

Let's see... C9 was a Compare, A9 was Load A Immediate, EA was a NOP....good times.

[shoprat17]

i gotta allied radio catalog from about '75 with a calculator like that in it for about $500...

[shoprat17]

ive gotta allied radio catalog from about '75 that has a calculator in it for about $500...

[Ihateirans]

I am able to decode all those bits of data by ear! And if you believe that, I have some swamp land in Nevada to sell you.

[GreatLakesDrifta]

High frequency = 1, Low Frequency = 0. I used to have one of those on my old commodore vic-20 back in the 80's and used it to store programs I would either write or type in from a magazine. One time, I recorded over one of my mom's tapes... She put it in the big stereo tape deck and was expecting to hear the rolling stones and instead got the 0 and 1 medley.... Yeah, that was good for a weeks worth of grounding.. LOL

[jvolstad]

That's the calculator I had back in 1973-76 when I was stationed in Germany.

[summer20105707]

Data is still stored on audio formats. CD's and DVD's are still used.

[Rogerdof]

0:10

[VNVgirl]

neat! i like seeing all of the cool stuff i missed when i wasn't alive hehe - i like to go to goodwill and buy old stuff for cheap and try and make them work - very cool! :)

[JDTV1995]

vintage porno lololol

[insanepotato]

this could be used to be part of a pretty sick remix

[girlstorm09]

wow load annoying sound....lol i bet it took some getting used to ...to have to deal with the noice everytime you used a computer that used a tape recorder

[theslowlane]

When I was transferring data, there was no sound. It went to the tape recorder through the cable. Wondering what it would sound like to play back the tape, I listened to play and got the sound.

[fanoultimatev3]

much better than Dragonforce

[X2YeZCAMCNC]

We got the data. LOL

[rudyiking]

My step father had an old IT calculator just like that.  I wish I know what he did with it.

[stabilini]

i think that isn't leds

[ryzoplace]

these are NIXIE tubes instead of leds

[maglight117]

@ryzoplace nope they are VFD's not nixies

[theslowlane]

@ryzoplace

[theslowlane]

I think I got the SR-80 the first year they came out with LEDs. The year before it seemed like little filaments.

[astralplanejunkies]

please play more of the noise from the computer, i would love to see a video of all the sound the computer makes, like a few minutes long, and people who are interested in noise music and experimental music would like it, thanks!

[gburton]

best video i've seen on the internet or anywhere in a while

[AugustoAAL]

I have one of those Radio shack cassette recorders!exactli like yours.

It is from the 90´s? I got mine at a thrift store for 2bucks.

[theslowlane]

I forgot when I got it, but I think early 90s.

[Rapidfashion4]

101000010101010000101010100001­01010010

[purpleravenstar]

Ear rape.

[baneskrbic]

Calculator these days work 3 years.This one over 30 years.Why nobody make quality devices anymore?

[theslowlane]

Most of that 30 years, it sat unused in my closet. Some of the newer stuff seems to be just as good.

[baneskrbic]

Actually,I have 30 years old calculator that works and it`s been used till today.Unfortunately it broke down in my schoolbag few months ago.I had functions sin,cos,tan and much more and it was made in Japan.When school ends I`ll try to fix it.

[coondogtheman1234]

its b/c everything is made in china and there is no quality control whatsoever like back in the old days where they would torture test things to make sure they last.

Do that with anything made today and it will fail on the first test.

[baneskrbic]

Well,true,but today computer or general electronic devices are more complex than before.

Computers are away faster.

I have my 7yo PC and I use it as a PC,my first and i don't have other but that one.

It works.

I bet that old PC in my school basment work(unless because of moisture,it rusted)

General,today things are made to be aviable to everybody at fair price.

It works it works.

"I got this for 5$."

[ANARCHYdashTVdotCOM]

good times

[FarmMan1812]

why the hell are you posting a gay vid like that

[visor109]

Sounds like Packet Radio.

[Lachlant1984]

I had a tape recorder just like that one when I was in school back in 1997, I think it's DC Bias, so CassetteMaster wouldn't like it very much at all, it was a good unit though, it may have been the exact same model as the one you're showing here.

[coondogtheman1234]

I wonder if theres a way to decode the data sounds on those tapes and put them on say a memory card, kinda sounds like my dial up internet with aol b4 i got DSL, and I saw a calc like that one on modern marvels 70's tech

[fryersoncaptain]

I used to have that calculator! I found it at a flea market for about ten bucks, it ran for about a month!

[Wavedude21101]

dont buy old calculators from thrift they work for 3 seconds or so and die; i used ebay and got my Canon palmtronic flawless

[maxwellmovies]

you have such a cool vioce! sort of reminds me of the apple voice

[6364gg2]

Cool!

[Madguten]

thats a nice calculator.

[rhblakeman]

Get the calc to go into flashing display (error/overload) and put it by an AM radio, makes some really odd sounds, they werent shielded hardly at all. When I used one in military technical training in 76 in Denver my radio would freak if it was by the calc and it error'd. They did a lot for as ancient as they appear though and they cost a ton of money then. The sound on the tape is similar to sounds of data over a phone line then converted by a modem (modulate/demodulate). Slow way to transfer

[coondogtheman1234]

i do that with remote controls and my portable radio, it makes lots of cool sounds, i tried it with my ipod my juice box player my psp all my stuff, each device has its own unique sound to it.

[Lachlant1984]

That's something I used to do when I was young, make devices interfere with the radio, I had a lot of fun doing it, I never do it these days, except on very rare occasions.

[coondogtheman1234]

I used to do that with a radio set to AM mode and just go around listening to the sounds that devices make when the radio is near them like remotes computers and other electronic things.

[flounder31]

Ahh the days before floppy disks... remember this sound well from my TI-99/4A

[metasuperhyper]

Sweet, painful data :)

[harre67]

I found software on the Internet that can

extract the data from the tape sound

by decoding a WAV-file

[coondogtheman1234]

thats awesome whats the name of that program id like to try it on some data wav files i have. pls reply thx.

[harre67]

KCS v0.8 - Kansas City Standard and CUTS tape decoder/encoder

Unable to post an URL here, but search Google for kcs+wav+cassette

[coondogtheman1234]

NM I found it. unless theres a windows program like that. I do have some experience with MS DOS b/c I have other programs like it like Decode.exe for the GTA Vice city PS2 radio stations.

[sz42781]

By the sund of that tape you were clearly beating off alot in the 80's

[davidcharlesgrove]

Beautiful, beautiful industrial byproduct in the form of sound.

Reminds me of IBM by T.G.

[greatbison]

I remember those tape players on my old C64. You had to play one side, then flip it over and play the other side.

[Amishman35]

The same tiling that you have under the cassette player is also on the floor in my kitchen.

[th3sp0rk]

damn that is loud!

[grumpybb]

My dad had that exact same calculator. I don't remember the price he paid but it was pretty damn high for the time.

[theslowlane]

I paid $89 for my Texas Instruments in 1974. Some prices have sure come down over the years.

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

How old are you ?

[theslowlane]

Born in 1954. Went to college fall of 73 to spring of 78. Got calculator in spring of 74.

[TechVideos2566]

The data sounds are called Frequency Shift Keying. I know this because I still use an Ohio Scientific.

[RemoteProcedureCall]

That is interesting. I have a vinyl record that does similar sounds as if it was a program of some sort. I have the video, should check it out

[RemoteProcedureCall]

it kinda sounds like RTTY

[KojiKondo1993]

God, I remember those ear splitting data transfers. It sucked.

[CassetteMaster]

AWESOME!!

[soaptaco]

no shit! how interesting!