Development, round II

From: Barry Peterson <bmpete_at_swbell.net>
Date: Mon Jan 26 23:03:53 1998

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:36:26 -0800, you said:

>> 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).

No, the drives were optional. DOS was sold separately. I've had PC's
with the cassette connector but never seen anything connect to it.
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Barry Peterson bmpete_at_swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
Received on Mon Jan 26 1998 - 23:03:53 GMT