Encoding Data for Audio Tape?

Kris_J asks: "I've recently purchased and installed an audio cassette deck for my PC. It makes recording to and from tape particularly painless, but I'm looking for some funky other stuff to try. Along the lines of my new old SuperDisk FD32MB that can store 32MB on a normal 1.44MB floppy, and my Cuttle Cart that can load Atari 2600 games from encoded audio I'm wondering if there's any program that can encode a file as audio that can survive being recorded to audio tape or compressed as an MP3. I'll worry about 'why' later."

Comments

tape yes, mp3 no

[n9hmg]

MP3 is a lossy compression. If lossy recovery is OK with you, fine. For storage to tape - maybe cwpcm the file after uuencoding it. I can't remember if there's a morse code character for each character used by uuencode.
on a more practical line - send it as straight ascii, using the ham radio interfaces in Linux, through the sound card. decode that with the same interfaces and you're done. Those tools are used to loss, but I'd expect 100% copy on and off tape.

A more useful 'Ask Slashdot' question.

[IM6100]

A more useful cassette tape oriented question that I have been thinking about is: Has anybody come up with a software package to emulate an audio cassette deck using a PC with a sound card? It seems like it would be a trivial task and it'd be cool for people with 'classic' hardware. The old TRS-80 or Sinclair 1000 would be more useful with a 100% reliable storage system like an old Pentium Machine that mimics a cassette. It would need audio in/out and possibly a digital input for 'motor control' that many old computers used.