11 Feb
2002
11 Feb
'02
8:38 a.m.
At 09:48 PM 2/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
I installed an entire classroom of IBM PC's that
all had cassette interfaces
on them,
Many of use have. The original PCs all had the cassette port.
but never have I ever seen an rebranded or OEM's tape drive
directly from IBM themselves.
AFIK no one has. That's why I was surprised to hear of someone having a
tape for it.
The Diagnostic tape, was it to run diags on
the IBM PC itself or was it a diagnostic tape for a
tape drive???
No, this one has diagnostics for the computer.
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