Reel-to-reel on //e?

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

Okay, this is gonna seem really geeky but I'm serious about this!

In the beginning, the Apple ][ and ][+ (and they left the connections
in the //e) used an audiocassette tape drive as a device.  At 30 I have
never actually played Lemonade Stand by that means but did once see a
system so equipped in a thriftstore.  :)  Ahh, our glorious past...

I was thinking as I found this reel-to-reel tape in the alley behind
the U-Haul that it'd be pretty wild to use a reel-to-reel player as a
device.  At the moment I have an unenhanced //e with the Duodisk card
yanked :) and a mono-plug-to-mono-plug cord between the jacks on the
back of the //e and my "portable" (30 pounds) tape player.  Using the
SAVE command I can record a program to tape, but I can't seem to get
the program to LOAD up.  I've fiddled with the volume and tone.  It'd
be nice if the Apple shared a trait found in Commodores and displayed
something like "Found program, loading..." so I'd be able to follow.

My question is, was there something special about the Apple tape
recorders?  Less feedback, higher output volume or lower input volume
(what I've saved to reel-to-reel as well as to a cassette recorder is
not very loud IMHO)?  Do you have to have BOTH jacks filled at the same
time (I've been moving 1 cable between a2in-tapeout and a2out-tapein)?

Odd tangent but the best way to drown flames is with cold water.

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