Kansas City standard
It originated in a symposium sponsored by Byte magazine in November 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri to develop a standard for the storage of digital microcomputer data on inexpensive consumer quality cassettes.
Computer consultant Jerry Ogdin conceived the use of audio tones on a cassette to replace the paper tapes.
He took the idea to Les Solomon, editor of Popular Electronics magazine, who was similarly frustrated by punched tapes.
[1] Wayne Green, who had just started Byte magazine, wanted all the manufacturers to collaborate on a single cassette standard.
After the meeting, Lee Felsenstein (of Processor Technology) and Harold Mauch (of Percom) wrote the standard, which was published in Byte magazine's first issue.
According to Solomon, the efforts were unsuccessful: "Unfortunately, it didn't last long; before the month ended, everyone went back to his own tape standard and the recording confusion got worse.
"[1] The participants of the Kansas City symposium include these:[4] The original standard records data as "marks" (one) and "spaces" (zero).
Processor Technology developed the popular CUTS (Computer Users' Tape Standard), which works at either 300 or 1200 baud.
[14] Daniel Meyer and Gary Kay of Southwest Technical Products (SWTPC) arranged for Robert Uiterwyk to provide his 4K BASIC interpreter program for the Motorola 6800 microprocessor.
The May 1977 issue of Interface Age contains the first "Floppy ROM", a 331⁄3 RPM record containing about six minutes of Kansas City standard audio.
The September 1978 Floppy ROM Number 5 has two sides: Apple BASIC, "the automated dress pattern", and IAPS format, "A program for writing letters".
