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_at_ix.netcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_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
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