TRS-80 without floppy drive

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Wed Apr 27 17:25:34 CDT 2005


>
>Subject: Re: TRS-80 without floppy drive
>   From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>   Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:56:42 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>The original TRS-80 cassette interface was often a WORHE (Write Once, Read
>Hardly Ever).  It was not acceptably reliable.
>

It was the only casette interface.  There was a mod for the Level-II
that greatly improved read reliability.  Level-1 machine used half 
the data rate and were decent.  Myself I modded one trs-80 I have
by removing most of the casette input opamp crap, it worked 
notably better!


Allison




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