TRS-80 without floppy drive

chris cb at mythtech.net
Wed Apr 27 08:48:58 CDT 2005


My wife has declared that I must remove all my toys from the living room 
floor. She is tired of it looking like an "electronics graveyard" as she 
has been calling it for the last week. And it isn't even that bad, I just 
have two laser disc players with a small stack of discs, two surround 
sound amps, a VCR, a Video Conference terminal, two NeXT slabs, my 
PowerBook 1400, a TRS-80, and a Tandy 1000 with monitor and printer... 
there is still a path to get thru the room, so I don't understand what 
the problem is. But I know if I don't appease her, she will move onto the 
garage and/or basement... THEN I'm in trouble! :-)

Regarding the TRS-80. It has no floppy drives. I haven't really looked at 
it yet, but I presume it can be connected to a standard tape recorder to 
use cassettes (it came with the case pre-markered saying "No floppy 
drives, use cassettes"... that will be a different project to scrub that 
off).

What is the easiest way for me to obtain software and transfer to 
cassette? I have no other machines currently setup to read/write to 
cassette. However, I do have Windows and Mac setups that I can capture an 
audio stream to cassette if there is some repository of WAV files or 
similar archives of software.

Anyone want to point me in the right direction?

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>



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