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Re:Generate raw WAV output by hooking malloc and read by cowpewter on Monday July 28, 2014 @11:11PM (#8100522)
Reminds me of when I was a kid, and I had a Tandy CoCo and a tape recorder deck that was the only way to save any programs you wrote on it. I tried playing the data tape a few times.
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Re:Generate raw WAV output by hooking malloc and read by mikecsh on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @03:23AM (#8101072)
Yes! I used to have an Amstrad CPC 464 with a tape deck and it would play the tape through its internal speaker as it was loading a program into memory. The amount of time sat around watching screens like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvChkOHgDIo

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