27 Jan
1998
27 Jan
'98
9:29 a.m.
That's good to know, Tony. I think I have one or two TRS-80 cables around
here somewhere. It would be nice if a Tandy cassette player would also
work; I think I have one of those here as well. I've put a couple of
feelers out there looking for an IBM variety.
Cliff Gregory
cgregory(a)lrbcg.com
-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Development, round II
> I've never seen an IBM cassette drive; fact is
I've never seen a 5150
> without at least one disk drive. The 5150 does boot to cassette BASIC if
no
boot disk is
present. Now my curiousity is piqued. I'm going to have to
find a cassette player and interface cable somewhere.
AFAIK the IBM 5150 PC cassette cable is the same as the cable used to
link a cassette recorder to a TRS-80. That should make it quite easy to
find - I have a couple here (which I need to hang on to).
It wouldn't be hard to solder one up, well, apart from soldering those
infernal DIN plugs.
-tony