[Coco] High(Er) speed cassette loading.

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Wed Dec 30 15:50:14 EST 2020


On Dec 30, 2020, at 2:37 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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.)

HI, Art! What were the speeds it allowed? 1500 was the stock, wasn’t it?


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