13 Mar
2023
13 Mar
'23
1:51 p.m.
On Mar 8, 2023, at 7:25 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 3/7/2023 8:30 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
What about the data cassettes used on things like Plato? Not at all like the
audio cassettes later used on home computers.
bill
I asked on Cyber1 and got a single reply, but it wasn't all that definitive:
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Was there any PLATO/NovaNet arrangements with Atari like
there was for Texas Instruments computers? The TI system
used a cartridge if I remember. Atari had ROM cartridges
as well as a cassette attachment to store programs written
in ATARI BASIC. The cassette device looked like a standard
cassette recorder that was attached to the ATARI 800 using
a proprietary serial port. Could this be what they were
referring to?
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paul
I’m
working on a project, and I need to know the age of various tape
formats. For example when were 6250bpi 700’ 9-Track tapes or DC600A
cartridges introduced? Is there any good resource online that
documents this? Wikipedia is of some help, but the older you go, the
spottier it is.
For QIC, qic.org has a some info. For DLT and LTO, the wikipedia pages
are fairly useful.