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                                                  M.J.RAWLINGS 16-4-88
                              TAPE TIMER

I  keep  track of all my sound recordings by keeping a note of the rev
count at the beginning and end of each piece, this makes  it  easy  to
find any recording but tells me nothing about the length of each piece
without  the  tedious process of timing it. Before I got involved with
my first computer I worked out a look up table which provided me  with
rough and ready times for my reel to reel recordings (in the days when
cassette recorders were just cheap plastic toys).

Unfortunately  not  all  of my tapes are on reels with the same centre
size, and I have a mixture of standard play, long play and double play
tapes. All this means that the lookup table has to have its own set of
correction tables, none of which has ever been very  accurate.  Many's
the  time  I  have tried to squeeze a recording onto the end of a tape
only to find, too late, that there was  insufficient  space.  Now  ten
years  and four computers later I have a video and a cassette recorder
and the problem is compounded many times. 

For some time now I have thought that it should be possible to write a
program to solve this problem and at last I have got round to  writing
it.  The  program  as  broadcast  has  standard options built in for 3
different types of sound cassette, 2 types of video cassette  and  the
most  common of my reel to reel options as an example. The program has
been designed to make it easy to add your own particular  options  and
to  make  corrections to timings if your tape machine or brand of tape
differs from my own.

                          USING THE PROGRAM

First select the option required from the main menu then enter the rev
count as shown on your tape recorder, the  total  time  will  then  be
displayed  together  with the time elapsed since the last rev count as
well as the recording space left on the tape. On the first  entry  the
program  will  assume that the previous count was zero and the elapsed
time will, of  course,  be  the  same  as  the  total  time.  Entering
succesive  higher  rev  counts  will  display  the elapsed time as the
difference in time between the current  rev  count  and  the  previous
count.  That is, you can time a recording merely by entering the start
rev count followed by the end count and reading off the elapsed  time.
Entering a rev count lower than the previous count will zero the start
count so that the elapsed time will match the total time.

You  can  press  <ESCAPE>  at  any  time  to  return to the main menu,
pressing <ESCAPE> again will allow you to exit from the program.


                             CUSTOMISING

The parameters for each of the ten possible choices are held  in  DATA
statements  at the end of the program followed by REM statements which
give brief reminders  of  the  use  of  each  parameter.  The  program
calculates  the  time elapsed from the thickness of the tape, the size
of the centre of the spool and the  number  of  times  the  spool  has
revolved  to  calculate  the  length  of tape that has passed over the
recording head. This length is then divided by the tape speed to  give
the  time  and  then  multiplied  by a correction factor to remove any
errors caused by slight innacuracies in the tape  thickness  or  spool
centre dimensions.

The  first  parameter  is  the name of the option, this is used in the
menu displayed on entry to the program, any null strings entered  here
will be ignored by the menu.

The second parameter labelled "A" is the diameter of the centre of the
reel in centimetres.

"B"  is  the  tape  speed  in  centimetres  per second. Standard audio
cassette speed is 1 7/8 inches per second or  4.7625  centimetres  per
second  and  standard VHS video speed is 2.339 centimetres per second.
There are 4 commonly used speeds on reel to reel recorders:-
                
               1 7/8 ins per sec (4.7625 cents per sec), 
               3.75 ins per sec (9.525 cents per sec)
               7.5 ins per sec (19.05 cents per sec)
               15 ins per sec (38.1 cents per sec)

"C" is the tape thickness, this varies from brand to brand, the values
I have used can be regarded as a rough guidance but to achieve greater
accuracy you need to make your own measurements. This is not  as  hard
as  it  sounds  and  you  will  not  need specially accurate measuring
instruments. Simply reset the rev counter then run the tape out to the
end, measure the total thickness of tape wound on to  the  spool  then
divide by the number of revolutions. The only thing you should be wary
of  is the fact that many cassette recorders record only one rev count
to every two actual  revolutions.  Alternatively  you  can  leave  the
thickness  alone  and  make  use  of the correction facility described
below, although I would advise you to do this only if  the  correction
required is relatively small.

"D"  is  the  time  correction factor and it can be used to make minor
adjustments to the timings. For example if the program gave the result
35 mins 50 secs, when you have used a stopwatch to time a recording at
36 mins 15 sec then the correction factor can be found as follows:-

               factor=(36*60+15)/(35*60+50)

All the correction factors in the program as broadcast have  been  set
to  1, as I have adjusted the thickness "C" to give results consistent
with my own equipment. 

"E" specifies the number of actual revolutions of the  spool  per  rev
count  displayed.  As mentioned above some tape machines only show one
rev count to every two actual revolutions in which case this parameter
should be set to 2.

"F" is the maximum duration of the tape in minutes, used to  calculate
how much time is left after the current rev count.

"G":-  Some  reel to reel tape machines have the rev counter connected
to the output reel not the takeup reel. This means that the rev  count
is  only  indirectly  connected  to the length of tape that has passed
over the recording head.  In  this  case  the  program  will  have  to
calculate  the  length  of  tape  backwards from the maximum number of
revolutions for a full reel. "G" is used as a flag to  indicate  which
reel is being counted:-

               G=-1 (TRUE) takeup reel counted
               G=0 (FALSE) output reel counted 

"H"  is  the highest number of revolutions on a full reel, simply zero
the rev counter to 0, run the tape through to the end and note the rev
count. This parameter is only used when "G" is set to 0.

                            COMPATIBILITY

This program will run on any Acorn computer with BBC  Basic  from  the
BBC A right through to the Archimedes, it is written purely in "legal"
Basic  with  no  peeks  or  pokes.  It  will  also run on an IBM PC or
compatible equiped with M-TEC's version of BBC Basic, simply  transfer
across from your Beeb with a cable connected to the serial ports using
the  "TX"  and  "RX"  programs  supplied, then convert to PC format as
described in appendix "F" of the guide. If your version of  the  guide
does  not  inclue  appendix  "F" then you should be able to obtain the
necessary cable and software direct from M-TEC.

No customising is necessary to run the program on a PC as there  is  a
routine  in  the program which detects the presence of a PC by issuing
an osbyte call which performs a  different action on  a  PC,  than  it
does  on a BBC. Similarly there is an error handling routine to detect
the "bad mode" message on a PC. This is not because of lack of memory,
as a PC does not use program space for the screen and leaves the  full
62.5K  available  for  programing  regardless  of  screen mode, but to
detect whether the PC is fitted with a colour or mono display card.

Because the program is a straight forward piece of  Basic  programming
with  no  fancy  graphics, it should be easy to adapt it to suit other
brands of Basic on other computers.

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