[Coco] [Color Computer] Way around it?

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 10 May 2009 at 18:37, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 10 May 2009, vacuumboy1 wrote:
> >I don't have a cassatte  tape player to save my programs. Is there any other
> > way to save? Again, any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
> 
> Anything you can record on will do it, and probably far better than the el-
> cheapo cassette's used back then.  I didn't have one for a long time either, 
> but I had a good, metal tape twin deck.  That worked 100% of the time even 
> when I only recorded on the left channel.  The noise created by the use of 
> permanent magnets for bias on the so-called computer tape decks usually makes 
> it a coin toss as to whether you can reload what you saved the next time.
> 
> If you have audio recording abilities in the pc you are posting this with, 
> record the cassette output to a .wav file on the pc.  Then play it back and 
> feed it to the coco when you want to reload.  I think you'll find it works 
> better than a cheap tape deck ever could.

A trick folks in the Model 100 community were doing 10-15 years back 
was saving programs as tracks on a CD. This was for stuff they were 
using a lot.

These days, I'd use a cheap MP3 player...
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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com