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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