Re: Apple II cassette drive.

[Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca>]

Ernest wrote:
> 
> I am interested in finding a cassette drive for my apple IIe. Does anyone
> know where I can find on (or does anyone have one to sell me?)
> 
> From what I've read, Apple had their own way of using a cassette drive,
> which was not the IS of 300 baud, because unlike other companies, Apple was
> able to transfer data at 1200 baud with no problems. So my other question is
> does the Apple II require a special cassette drive, or will a cassette drive
> from, say, a TRS-80 CoCo work on it.
> 
> Did Apple make their own cassette drive?
> 
> I don't have any experience using a cassette drive as data storage but I'm
> curious about it.
> 
> Ernest

	Any mono casette should do. I understand only the GS does not have a
casette port. As to using it you should have the appropriate cables
(naturally). A casette which is blank. A DOS 3.3 boot disk. I think the
commands are CLOAD and CSAVE. Reports I remember from the era are the
casette drives on all computers are quite unreliable. The Apple software
was better than most. Most people used the casette out as a connection
to a second speaker. When the 5.25 disk came out people threw away their
tapes because floppies were a lot more reliable and did not stretch with
use.

				Later
				Mike




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