Deciphering Audio Connections on the Synertek SYM-1 (for saving & loading programs from tape)

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[@elmegil]

That was a brilliant imitation of a modem for someone of Zach's age 😀

[@JonDeth]

Oooo, I actually knew what this was through intuition lol. I referenced the BASIC stamp and this is seemingly, it's older but more in-depth predecessor that surely led to it's development much later in the 90's.
I suppose both can be perceived as what led us to Arduino which I foolishly mistook for something it is not until actually researching it a couple years ago.
*Man did I miss the bus on that one, and I've had one for a good 10 years!*
The explanation I was given related it to the Raspberry Pi, another one I own and that they were oriented for learning software language without it being stated they are in fact, both microcontroller equipped development and prototyping machines.

[@Lantertronics]

This particular one was owned by a composer named Richard Teitelbaum, so I initially thought it may be some kind of square wave musical output (although yeah cassette was always more likely.)