19 Dec
2007
19 Dec
'07
3:50 p.m.
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 17:32 Gordon JC Pearce said:
Did any company ever actually produce a storage
product that used
8-track carts (or indeed broadcast carts)? Did it work?
Gordon
I had a surplus dual 8-track data drive back in the early '80s that
came from a Compucolor machine, ca. 1975. It was fun to play with.
As I recall, it had a 4-track head and two head positions. I managed
to write & read data from it at 2400 baud. I don't know if it would
have worked at a higher data rate, though the manufacturer claimed it
would work at up to 600 cps.
-Bobby