Kansas City Standard data cassette - Revision history

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The '''Kansas City Standard''' is a system for storing data on cassettes. It was devised at a symposium in Kansas City in November, 1975, convened by ''Byte'' magazine, which published the resulting standard in its February 1976 issue. This format was used by a number of systems, especially S-100 bus systems (the same sorts of systems that generally used [[CP/M]] when they acquired disk drives).

Some systems using this system:
* Acorn
* Casio (calculators, keyboards)
* Exidy Sorcerer
* Ohio Scientific
* Processor Technology (SOL-20)

== Documentation ==
* [http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/AC30/KansasCityStandard.htm Byte article explaining this system]
* [http://www.sol20.org/manuals/img/CUTS_Assembly_and_Test.pdf Cassette interface assembly/testing manual from maker of SOL-20]
* [[Wikipedia:Kansas City standard|Wikipedia article]]

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	Sometimes software was distributed on cassettes with Kansas City Standard data on one side, and another format of the time, [[CUTS data cassette\|CUTS]], on the other side.		Sometimes software was distributed on cassettes with Kansas City Standard data on one side, and another format of the time, [[CUTS data cassette\|CUTS]], on the other side.
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		+	In the late '70s, there was even occasional use of the Kansas City Standard format stored on a vinyl record, especially a thin "sound sheet" that could be bound into a magazine, sometimes referred to as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_standard#Floppy_ROM "Floppy ROM"].

	[[Unified Emulator Format]] (UEF) has been used to preserve the pattern of signals in such a cassette in a modern computer file.		[[Unified Emulator Format]] (UEF) has been used to preserve the pattern of signals in such a cassette in a modern computer file.

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 The '''Kansas City Standard''' is a system for storing data on cassettes. It was devised at a symposium in Kansas City in November, 1975, convened by ''Byte'' magazine, which published the resulting standard in its February 1976 issue. This format was used by a number of systems, especially S-100 bus systems (the same sorts of systems that generally used [[CP/M]] when they acquired disk drives).
-Sometimes software was distributed on cassettes with Kansas City Standard data on one side, and another format of the time, [[CUTS]], on the other side.
+Sometimes software was distributed on cassettes with Kansas City Standard data on one side, and another format of the time, [[CUTS data cassette|CUTS]], on the other side.
 [[Unified Emulator Format]] (UEF) has been used to preserve the pattern of signals in such a cassette in a modern computer file.

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 The '''Kansas City Standard''' is a system for storing data on cassettes. It was devised at a symposium in Kansas City in November, 1975, convened by ''Byte'' magazine, which published the resulting standard in its February 1976 issue. This format was used by a number of systems, especially S-100 bus systems (the same sorts of systems that generally used [[CP/M]] when they acquired disk drives).
 Some systems using this cassette standard:
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 * [http://www.sol20.org/manuals/img/CUTS_Assembly_and_Test.pdf Cassette interface assembly/testing manual from maker of SOL-20]
 * [[Wikipedia:Kansas City standard|Wikipedia article]]