27 Jun
1998
27 Jun
'98
4:13 p.m.
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Thanks for posting a more complete response than mine. I didn't think
that perhaps Max is too young to remember using a cassette recorder and
cassette tapes for program storage. I just assumed that everyone on this
list would know that computers used to use tape recorders in olden days
before disk drives came along.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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I know
we've been through this, but could someone summarize for me about
the cassette port? What can be used with it?
It was like the cassette port on (say) a TRS-80 or a C64. You could
(officially) use it from the ROM basic to save and load programs. It also
had motor control to turn the cassette recorder on and off automatically
- like a TRS-80. In fact the same cable and cassette recorder were used
with the IBM PC and with a TRS-80. The data formats were similar as well.