14 Dec
1998
14 Dec
'98
2:50 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
There were many varients. An internal modem was one
option that might
explain the phone jacks. There was (I believe) also an ASR version of one
of the desktop models that had a box on top with 2 digital cassette
drives in it. You could copy from one tape to the other, insert
characters from the keyboard, copy the tape to the line or to the
printer, etc. Basically use the cassettes like the paper tape on most ASR
machines.
Aha! That makes sense. I have one of these, and it was one of the first
things in my collection. I always wondered what the cassettes were for.
Now that I know, I have a new found appreciation for that machine. Cool!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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