Expensive Tape Recorder
| Expensive Tape Recorder | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | David Gross with Alan Kotok |
| Initial release | circa 1959–1962 |
| Platform | TX-0 |
| Type | Digital audio |
| Website | Tixo.org: Hacks (Internet Archive) |
Expensive Tape Recorder is a digital audio program written by David Gross while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gross developed the idea with Alan Kotok, a fellow member of the Tech Model Railroad Club. The recorder and playback system ran in the late 1950s or early 1960s on MIT's TX-0 computer on loan from Lincoln Laboratory.