31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
5:10 p.m.
> I just found it strange that the diagnostics
would come on cassette tape
> but there was never an IBM cassette player.
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Eric Smith wrote:
And as far as I know, there was no official IBM
explanation of where
to get a suitable cable. As mentioned earlier in this thread, the
salesmen at ComputerLand and such places generally would tell you to
go to Radio Shack and buy the TRS-80 cable (p/n 26-1207), but I don't
think IBM ever officially suggested such a thing.
Exactly. "Never sell a competitor's product"
When my employer purchased on on the first day of
availability, we
didn't even think to ask. We noticed that the connector was the same
as the TRS-80, so we tried a cable we already had, and were pleasantly
surprised that it worked.
The tech Ref had the pinout
Some later RS cables switched from a metal cylindrical shield to a plastic
collar. Breaking off that collar worked, but then you had to be CAREFUL.
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