TRS-80 without floppy drive

[Tony Duell]

> 
> 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 

Might I suggest a good divorce lawyer :-)

> 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 

You don;'t specify which model... With no internal drives it can't be a 
2, 12, or 16 (the business machines with 8" drives). A Model 1 has a 
cassette DIN socket on the back of the keyboard unit, alongside the PSU 
and monitor DIN connectors. A Model 3 or Model 4 has a cassette DIN 
socket on the back, next to the mains connector. A CoCo has a cassette 
DIN socket on the back too.

All machines have the same pinout and use the same cable (It's the same 
as the IBM PC too!). Yo ucan use just about any standard cassette 
recorder. Let me know if you need the pinout of the connector.

> 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.

I believe people have made sound files from the cassettes, which can then 
be re-recorded onto cassettes, or directly loaded into the machine. Not 
having got a soundcard, I've never looked into this. All my TRS-80s have 
diskl drvies and RS232 ports anyway...

-tony