[Coco] Loading via cassette interface

Mark D. Overholser apple2 at markoverholser.com
Sat Jun 27 16:09:34 EDT 2015


On 6/26/2015 09:34, Chris Osborn wrote:
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> On Jun 26, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
> wrote:
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>> It's really quite brilliant, though unfortunate this technique is
>> thus far only possible on a handful of computer platforms.
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> It would be possible to load programs from the web on the TRS-80 line
> too, except for the need for a special cable. There’s also some
> special apps for doing similar things on the ZX Spectrum.
>

Any 8 Bit era computer that supported Cassette Tape Storage through an 
Audio Port can be connected to a modern computer's Sound Port and have 
Programs and Data Loaded and Saved.

On a Web Page, it there was an MP3 Player
> I find it really interesting trying to bootstrap computers from bare
> metal and format a blank floppy and make it bootable. I keep thinking
> I should do a challenge to see if people can document a procedure for
> doing it on other platforms.
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