Sound of an ABC 80 cassette

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• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1las_P=E9ter?= · Msg 563 · inlagg

  2011-10-18 15:01

  Ärende: Sound of an ABC 80 cassette

  Hi folks, I am new here. ABC 80 was the first computer I used in secondary school back in 1980's and I loved it. It was a successful and popular school computer in Hungary. Unfortunately, I threw away my cassettes with the programs becuase I thought I would never need them again. But I still here the music of them in my ears and I would like to attach it to my homepage. (http://64.hu/64/) So if anyone has a tape recorder cassette with an original ABC 80 BASIC program from the nice old times, and is willing to publish the *sound *of it as public domain or under some Creative Commons license, and can send me a sample in mp3 or ogg or wav or any audio format, I would be very happy and grateful. What I need is the first 20-30 seconds of a program or a whole short program. Here is the sound of a Commodore 64 cassette, but it is not as nice as ABC 80: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datasette.ogg You might send me it in mail or upload it to Wikimedia Commons similarly for making other people happy, too. Péter from Budapest
  • juhasz · Msg 564 · kommentar

    2011-10-18 19:15

    Ärende: Sound of an ABC 80 cassette

    Hi Peter! Check out http://juhasz.se/abc80 There you will find some wav files - one very short recorded from my ABC80 and one which is generated from a program I wrote when I wanted to transfer some stuff from my mac to the ABC80 (abccas.zip). There are also some books (in swedish) and emulation attempts... Interesting connection with Hungary by the way! As you maybe guessed from my site, I have Hungarian ancestry (but unfortunately don't speak the language...), and there is indeed at least one more Hungarian following this list. Would be interesting to know a bit more about ABC80/BRG80 in Hungary. Apart from Sweden and maybe Finland, that must have been the largest market! ;) As a side note I know of at least two companies from the olden days that are still in business: Cat AB in Sundbyberg that among others did the CatNet (they do general comms and telemetry equipment these days and had an ad in the latest "Ny Teknik"), and Nanco in Henån. The later company wrote among other things "Bit för Bit med ABC800" and I came across them when sourcing some ultra-high precsision motion sensors. The orignal team is still there, and I was able to send some regards for a very well written book to the authors. Not often that happens with 30-years old computer stuff! Best regards Robert Juhasz