10 Feb
2002
10 Feb
'02
6:57 p.m.
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
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.
Yes, they provided diagnostics on tape.
Yes, there was a cassette port.
Yes, the pinout was the same as TRS-80.
NO, we have NOT seen an IBM cassette drive.
No, we have NOT seen an IBM cassette cable.