[Coco] [Color Computer] Way around it?

[Joel Ewy]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Karl Sefcik wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>>  Check this out, I think there is a difference. Take a normal 
>> pre-recorded tape of Christmas music or something else that you 
>> bought for use in your car (a few years ago), and play it in the 
>> TRS80-cassette deck. It will play faster, like chipmunk music, that's 
>> what I based my conclusion on for the faster tape speed.
>
> Have you verified that on more than one unit?  Sounds more like a unit 
> with the speed adjustment off.  The mechanism is a standard audio 
> cassette drive and those run at 1-7/8 ips.
>
> Steve
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Agreed.  In fact, the CoCo has a BASIC instruction (AUDIO ON/OFF, IIRC) 
designed just to play the cassette audio through the TV speaker, so you 
could have speech and music in your programs.

JCE