On 2017-05-11 04:52:13 +0000, rbernardo{at}iglou.com said:

> Popular Mechanics has released an on-line article entitled, "11
> Forgotten Media Formats of Yesteryear". The subtitle says, "You
> remember the floppy drive, but do you remember the Commodore 64 tape
> drive?" (My answer -- of course, I do!)
>
> They only identify the Datasette with the C64 and not with the other
> compatible C= 8-bit computers - PET, VIC-20, Plus/4, C128, and CBM II
> series.
>
> To read about what they say about the Datasette, see
>
>
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g3075/the-forgotten-media-of-yesteryear/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=050917

Very
>
few people in Europe had the disk drive - was seen as an expensive
luxury. 'Cousin of the Microdrive'?! It really wasn't, it was a
straight forward load-from-tape system that every other 8 bit had as
well. Probably closest to the BBC's handling of tape drives, which
could autorewind (and had the life saving "load by block" feature which
meant if the load was corrupt, you just had to rewind past the first
corrupted block and try again.).

Microdrive was very different and almost -no-one- had that.


Cheers,
Ian


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