I never saw anybody use the cassette port for practical purposes. In fact, I never saw a cassette drive from IBM. Good trivia question. Has anybody ever seen one? I do remember reading something years ago about hobbyists using the cassette port for plugging in wierd hardware hacks. The original PC came with Cassette Basic. As I recall, defaulted to that if you had no DOS boot disk. GWBasic and BasicA had to be loaded off the DOS disk. -----Original Message----- From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 11:45 PM Subject: Re: Development, round II >> BTW has anyone ever seen someone use the cassette port? I supported >>several hundred early PC user's and never even heard of anyone using the >>cassette port. > >Well, just off the top of my head, the original IBM PC came with two 5 1/4" >floppy drives. That tells me you'd have to be crazy to even attempt using >the cassette interface. Either that or have some special purpose >application (don't even want to imagine what). > > Zane > > >| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | >| healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | >| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | >+----------------------------------+----------------------------+ >| For Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | >| see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ | >| For the collecting of Classic Computers with info on them. | >| see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/museum.html | > > >