symphony for dot matrix printers

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Tony Duell wrote: In the US, IBM NEVER sold a cassette cable. But the pinout was the same as the TRS-80 1 and 3. Radio Shack here used to say that THEIR cassette recorder (CTR-80?) was the best for it, and the only one that would work reliably. Their explanation was that it wouldn't work right with a higher fidelity, that it needed the amount of "blur" of the signal that theirs did! I always found the TRS-80 cassette to be an almost entirely WRITE-ONLY medium. Success with reading back tapes was as elusive as successful CD burning with the eatly 2X CDRs. There was once an outfit that marketed a PC to PC communications package through the cassette ports. That died immediately on release of the XT. There had been similar stuff with Coco. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com