IBM PC cassette drive

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Feb 10 21:02:17 2002

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Curt Vendel wrote:
> 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.

It is diagnostics for the PC.
Almost, or maybe exactly, the same as the diagnostics on disk.

I have never seem the "Advanced Diagnostics" on tape, but have been told
that it existed.


Perhaps the reason that nobody is familiar with the IBM cassette drive
might be because there never was one?

But the PC DID come with a diagnostics tape. It was simply assumed that
the tape drive would be user provided. That way IBM was off the hook when
it didn't work.
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 21:02:17 GMT