[Coco] High(Er) speed cassette loading.

[Arthur Flexser]

I sold such a product, FASTAPE, through SpectroSystems, my first
commercial product.  It let you use high or low speed alternatives in both
loading and saving (all 4 possibilities supported).  Generally, loading and
saving using the speed poke (without FASTAPE) was unreliable for most
people, due to an insufficient amount of time for the tape to get up to
speed before the data transfer began.  (FASTAPE patched in a delay for
this.)

Art



On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:18 PM Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On CoCoTak, I heard a reference to David Ladd experimenting with higher
> baud rates for loading from tape.
>
> Before I had my disk drive, I found I could reliably CSAVE and CLOAD using
> the double speed POKE on my CoCo. Did anyone else do that?
>
> Where there any "tape accelerator" products for the CoCo?
>
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