Re:BASIC Computer Games
by jptoto on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:23AM
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Nice! My Commodore PET had a tape cassette drive. It was SOO unreliable.
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My first machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with a cassette tape drive; compared to the PET, due to the "generation difference" (probably in the encoding method?) - plus Radio Shack - it's cassette storage was actually really reliable.
People are still pulling old software and data off of some of their old CoCo tapes, what little problems there are typically can be solved by dumping to digital file and editing in some audio software to clean things up.
Re:BASIC Computer Games
by ddgflorida on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:42PM
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Same here - 16K Tandy Color Computer I from 1981-2. It was great for doing Numerical Analysis homework.
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I. The cassette tape storage was just Radio Shack's regular tape recorder. For some reason you had to use different volume settings for BASIC and machine language programs. The volume setting was horribly imprecise and I was always having to reload programs. The Commodore 64's tape recorder was a big upgrade.