On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Joe wrote:
> FWIW
> Several times there have been discussions on this list about wheather or
> not IBM ever made cassette drives for use with the original IBM PCs. The
> general feeling is that they never made any cassette drives or tapes. BUT I
> was talking to Mike Haas about this recently and he told me that he has an
> original IBM Diagnstics cassette tape! Today he sent a picture and I've
> posted it here <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/ibm/ibm-cass.jpg> . As you
> can see it has the same burgundy color as the standard IBM PC diagnostics
> disks.
Yes, they provided diagnostics on tape.
Yes, there was a cassette port.
Yes, the pinout was the same as TRS-80.
NO, we have NOT seen an IBM cassette drive.
No, we have NOT seen an IBM cassette cable.
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 18:57:48 GMT
