Re: Apple II cassette drive.

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.com>]

Thanks for the info. I won't be using it as my primary storage/loading
device so the speed issue won't really matter. I just wanted to try it out
and see how it all works. I'll store my "super secret" files on cassettes.
Who would think to look there, now days.

Man, I'll bet that was something -to record programs off of the radio.
That's must have seemed like pure voodoo back then, to all of the new
computer users. I like the idea a lot. Maybe someone should try it with
Windows 2000. Haha.

Ernest


Pim Blokland wrote in message <38A9BF06.D9947A28@planet.nl>...
>Ernest wrote:
>>
>> I am interested in finding a cassette drive for my apple IIe.
>
>As Mike says, any mono cassette recorder will do. Don't try one with
>any kind of noise reduction or quality enhancement circuitry though;
>it should be as simple a machine as possible.
>High fidility tape decks are useless; those mangle the sound in such
>a way that the Apple can't make heads or tails of it.
>I believe this is what caused the "unreliability" stories, because
>from what I've seen of it, it works rather well. I even downloaded a
>couple of programs from the radio, back in the early eighties, and
>they all loaded without problems. You just have to take care that the
>tapes aren't flawed in any way. Saving a program onto a wrinkled
>taped does not result in an I/O error, so you may not notice until
>too late!
>
>Mind you, the speed is horrible, even when compared to 5.25" floppies.
>
>> Did Apple make their own cassette drive?
>
>I don't think so. I don't remember ever having seen an Apple tape
>drive, not even in the photos in Apple's own books that showed
>typical computer setups.
>
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