On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Philip Belben <philip at axeside.co.uk> wrote:
On 12/03/2014 18:21, Louis Florit wrote:
- Original Commodore C2N Cassette recorder, I
think only for use w/ C64,
has special cable interface. Untested, case could use a good cleaning.
Sorry to nitpick, but the original C2N was for the Commodore PET. This had
an .156" edge connector as its cable plug, I think 6-way (or was it 5?). I
can't remember what connector the VIC and C64 versions had.
The identical connector. The guts changed, the shell changed, and
they added a digital counter, but the interface did not. You can use
any of the tape drives on any of those machines (and all PETs have two
connectors, an internal one as well as the external one, but what
changed from the chicklet-keyboard days was which connector was Tape
#1 and which one was Tape #2 - the internal connector was Tape #1 on
the oldest boards, then they switched to Tape #1 on the external
connector. Few people had two tape drives which is why the "Cassette
#2 Buffer at $033A was a favorite place for small machine language
programs).
-ethan