I wrote:
Can anyone provide a summary of how to use the
cassette interface on
a Panasonic HHC (or Quasar, etc.)? I don't have the relevant manuals.
I now have (some of) the relevant manuals. If you have the RL-P1004A
printer/cassette interface, the top-level menu item is "PRINTER/CASSETTE",
under which item 2 is "CASSETTE LOAD/SAVE", and it's all fairly obvious.
I've got one of those now, but at the time I posed the question, the
only cassette interface I had was part of the RL-P4003 acoustic modem
(vs. the RL-P4001, which doesn't have the cassette interface). However,
my RL-P4003 doesn't add any obvious menu items for the cassette.
The RL-P4001 and RL-P4003 modems and the RL-P3001 RS-232 interface
differ from the other HHC periperhals in that their control ROM is
socketed and can be replaced by the user. I think my modem/cassette
interface has the wrong ROM in it, and that the correct ROM would
have the cassette routines.
I'm still looking for an RL-P1002 color plotter (which I think uses
the small ALPS mechanism also used in plotters sold by Radio Shack,
Atari, and Sharp), an RL-P8001 EPROM programmer, any software other
than Microsoft BASIC, SnapBASIC, SnapFORTH, and insurance software,
and any technical documentation or software documentation (including
docs on MS BASIC, SnapBASIC, and SnapFORTH).
Eric