I installed an entire classroom of IBM PC's that all had cassette interfaces
on them, but never have I ever seen an rebranded or OEM's tape drive
directly from IBM themselves. The Diagnostic tape, was it to run diags on
the IBM PC itself or was it a diagnostic tape for a tape drive??? I have
several diag tapes for the Atari 410 which test the alignment and speed of
the Atari 410 tape drives, so this is why I ask.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: IBM PC cassette drive
> 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.
>
> Joe
>
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 20:48:49 GMT
