Re: New toy

From: Larry Anderson (foxnhare_at_goldrush.com)
Date: 1998-03-22 13:55:46

MagerValp wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Marko" == =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marko M=E4kel=E4?= <ISO-8859-1> writes:
> 
> MV> Hmm. I would trade a casette port for a RS232 interface...
> 
> Marko> Come on, think about it, wouldn't it have been cool to have two
> Marko> cassette ports on the C64? No alignment problems when copying
> Marko> tapes to friends, just plug in the friend's cassette drive. :-)
> 
> Well, if you put it that way :) We had this great program though, that
> presented the data read from the cassette on the screen as black
> squiggly lines on a red background. Made it really easy to align the
> drives...

Commodore Trivia:

  On PETs (I think all of em) you can press PLAY on the datasette (without
issuing a LOAD) and hold down the > (greater than) key and it will repeat the
character when the tape comes across data...  (Never know what triva I may
come up with...)

                    Larry Anderson
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