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    From James Harris@3:770/3 to All on Wed Jul 18 21:32:05 2018
    The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
    them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
    still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly delighted!

    But now the next step is that I want to get the programs from the
    cassettes onto a modern PC. Any suggestions on how to do that?

    I checked for USB-to-GPIB adaptors but even used ones are rather
    expensive. So, other suggestions would be welcome.

    Any ideas?

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    James Harris

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@3:770/3 to James Harris on Wed Jul 18 23:25:21 2018
    James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:
    The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
    them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
    still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly delighted!

    But now the next step is that I want to get the programs from the
    cassettes onto a modern PC. Any suggestions on how to do that?

    I checked for USB-to-GPIB adaptors but even used ones are rather
    expensive. So, other suggestions would be welcome.

    Any ideas?

    There's mtap:
    http://markus.brenner.de/
    But it doesn't mention PET support (and it has special commands
    for Vic-20 and C16 tapes so maybe that means something, or maybe
    not).

    There's also WAV-PRG which only mentions C64 tapes, but it does
    have a very healthy alternatives page: http://wav-prg.sourceforge.net/alternatives.html

    This actually mentions the PET, but it's a dedicated device: https://www.luigidifraia.com/c64/dc2n/select.html

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to JAMES HARRIS on Thu Jul 19 07:03:00 2018
    The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
    them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
    still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly delighted!

    A couple of years ago, I found all of my old TI99 cassettes, which were
    written to around 1981-83. They mostly were also still good! In my case,
    the only way I could figure to get them transfered was to buy a floppy
    drive (from ebay, I think) that worked with the TI99, install it, load the cassettes into memory on the TI and then write the program data back out to floppy.

    If, for some reason, I want then copy those to my PC, there are some
    utilities for that (at least, that run under DOS).

    I am not sure about your CBM platform, but maybe there is an easier way. :)

    Mike
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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to James Harris on Thu Jul 19 17:31:18 2018
    On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:32:05 +0100, James Harris wrote:

    The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on
    them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were
    still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly
    delighted!

    But now the next step is that I want to get the programs from the
    cassettes onto a modern PC. Any suggestions on how to do that?

    I checked for USB-to-GPIB adaptors but even used ones are rather
    expensive. So, other suggestions would be welcome.

    Any ideas?

    I wouldn't bother if these programs were already dumped to files made
    available in the internet.
    --
    Andreas

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