Hi Abhishek,

What a coincidence! Just yesterday I received a tape deck that was used by a Radio Shack Color Computer, circa 1985.

You really don't want to go this way. Data was recorded using audio so setting the correct recording levels and playback levels was critical to getting it to work. Data transfer was slow, and a tape wouldn't hold all that much data.

If you must record data on tape, you might try to get something a little newer. There are digital tape drives, where data is recorded as you suggested, or at least pretty close. Until home-writeable CDROMs became common, many computers used tape for backup. They might even still be made...

The tape drives we used on our mainframes recorded with multiple heads so a byte was written across the tape, parallel instead of serially, for faster data transfer.

Dennis