I have a Tandy, or some kind of data cassette recorder. Never use it for
data, but it's an excellent voice recorder and player.
-Mike
Andrew Gammuto wrote:
>
> 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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> >
> >
> >
Received on Tue Jan 27 1998 - 09:55:11 GMT