> (say - if you really want to store stuff on normal casette tapes, would
you
> be better off stripping down your recorder/playback unit to NOTHING except
> the transport mechanism and putting in your own electronics?)
>
Hi Bill, that stirred one of my ancient brain cells. If I remember correctly
(and I probably don't) you fed Manchester Code directly into the record
head. On playback each transition produces a positive or negative pulse
which allows the original signal to be reconstituted. I never tried it
myself so why I should remember it puzzles me.

I still doubt that 14.4kb/s is achievable on a cassette recorder,
unless....If you had a recorder with 4 channel heads you could split the
signal into 4 parallel channels which would give a speed of 3.6kb/s per
channel which would be achievable, that only leaves tape skew and sundry
other mechanical effects to deal with.

Regards
Chris

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