[Coco] Cassette Drives... (was: No MPI - any suggestions?

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Gene Heskett may have mentioned these words:

>A story here.  I've had several CCR-81's & never could make any of them work
>dependably, seemingly it always took a virgin chicken sacrificed to make it
>work one out of 10 times.

Uhhh... because they sucked? ;-)

The CCR-82's were worlds ahead on reliability - If you're still looking for 
reliable tape storage, Richard Hanson over at http://www.club100.org may 
still have a few in stock...

Me? I "blew my wad" on the extended basic chip in my first CoCo2, and 
couldn't afford any storage at the time. I was "just learning" anyway, so I 
didn't mind retyping in different programs, as they were always different 
and I was learning new things every time.

So, about 3 weeks later, an individual I knew was looking to "offload" a 
"tape player" no-one else seemed to want.... I said I might be interested, 
thinking I could try to hack it in to my CoCo2 setup... Turned out it was 
"no hacking involved." ;-) $2 later, I was the new proud owner of a GE 
Computer Data Cassette recorder (with unknown providence... :-O), so people 
thought it was only for computers. Sucker still worked great a few years 
ago the last time I pulled it out... but I'm pretty much a floppy (or 
bigger) kinda guy now. ;^>

Prolly the last thing GE made that didn't suck... ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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