10 Feb
2002
10 Feb
'02
8:48 p.m.
I installed an entire classroom of IBM PC's that all had cassette interfaces
on them, but never have I ever seen an rebranded or OEM's tape drive
directly from IBM themselves. The Diagnostic tape, was it to run diags on
the IBM PC itself or was it a diagnostic tape for a tape drive??? I have
several diag tapes for the Atari 410 which test the alignment and speed of
the Atari 410 tape drives, so this is why I ask.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: IBM PC cassette drive
FWIW
Several times there have been discussions on this list about wheather
or
not IBM ever made cassette drives for use with the
original IBM PCs. The
general feeling is that they never made any cassette drives or tapes. BUT
I
was talking to Mike Haas about this recently and he
told me that he has an
original IBM Diagnstics cassette tape! Today he sent a picture and I've
posted it here <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/ibm/ibm-cass.jpg> . As you
can see it has the same burgundy color as the standard IBM PC diagnostics
disks.
Joe