Hello, Josh.

Wednesday October 15 2014 at 18:23, you wrote to All:

 JR> I was wondering if anyone had some lore about using the original
 JR> TRS-80 with the cassette recorder, I remember seeing it in action,
 JR> but not much more. Say you were in a BASIC interpreter, did one open
 JR> a data channel to the recorder, press the record or play button
 JR> depending on the I/O one wished to perform or what?

You had to set the recorder to PLAY (if you wanted to load a program) or
PLAY and RECORD (to save a program).

I haven't done that in 20+ years now so I don't remember much else myself.

Later,
Sean

... AD&D Famous last words:  "Forget picking the lock, just kick
the door down!"

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