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English: The Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) AC-30 tape interface for early personal computers was introduced in May 1976 for $80. When the first home computers were introduced in 1975, floppy disk systems cost $2000. Storing data on audio cassettes was the low-cost but slow option that most hobbyists used. SWTPC designed their AC-30 Cassette Interface to meet the proposed "Kansas City" standard data format. The binary data was recorded using 1200 Hz and 2400 Hz at a 300 baud data rate. At 30 bytes per second it took over 4 minutes to load an 8K file. |
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| Source | Scanned from the July 1976 Byte magazine (inside front cover) by Michael Holley Swtpc6800 |
| Author | Southwest Technical Products Corporation, San Antonio, Texas |
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This advertisement did not have a copyright notice and is in the public domain. From the US Copyright Office Circular 3. Page 3, Contributions to Collective Works. (A magazine is a "collective work.")
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