Some of us remember the good ol’ reel-to-reel audio tape from Sony, ones with BIG capstan pinch rollers and tiny read multi-head.
That’s the primary set of part for this card reader as it came from the AKAI M-7 reel-to-reel tape deck that my dad vet sent from Thailand (that I ripped apart).
The rest is machining the new box to hold together the mechanicals and gears. It was big, something like 13”x8”x18”.
Then came the hacking part, which included plenty of social engineering to obtain its data format and then garage-based pattern construction of data bits.
Then came an Intel MCS-48 (8048) …. old, old, but big ICs approach with ADC capability.
Featured it at a Pacific Oil and Gas Conference booth, sold that day in its entirety,
That’s the primary set of part for this card reader as it came from the AKAI M-7 reel-to-reel tape deck that my dad vet sent from Thailand (that I ripped apart).
The rest is machining the new box to hold together the mechanicals and gears. It was big, something like 13”x8”x18”.
Then came the hacking part, which included plenty of social engineering to obtain its data format and then garage-based pattern construction of data bits.
Then came an Intel MCS-48 (8048) …. old, old, but big ICs approach with ADC capability.
Featured it at a Pacific Oil and Gas Conference booth, sold that day in its entirety,