On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 2:27:11 AM UTC-4, Anssi Saari wrote:

> Do you really intend to get a tape drive? The cassette deck thingy that
> most people hated? IMO, the only use for that thing today would be to
> read any old C64 cassettes you still have around.

When I got my C64 (December 1982), there was no disk drive available. The
only drives out there were the IEEE drives for PET and the VIC-1540 which
didn't work with the 64. The ROM upgrade for it wasn't out yet. We LOVED
the cassette drive! Especially 
after the format was revealed to save two complete copies of the program
for every save command. It was a very reliable system that compared the
second copy automatically. Once we knew what was going on we hacked the ROM
routines to only save one copy 
and cut save and load times in half. The tape drive was still reliable
enough to have practically no errors. 

Tom L

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