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    From Daniel@1:340/7 to All on Monday, August 26, 2019 13:58:10
    It came in today. It works! Luckily I clled in sick today for mental health day so im going to go to a
    thrift store looking for an old tube tv that i can connect the commodore to and
    play around.

    i have software and games and disc drivces and tape drives to acquire oh my.


    Daniel Traechin
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  • From Anssi Saari@3:770/3 to Daniel on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 09:27:10
    nospam.Daniel@f1.n770.z2775.fidonet.org (Daniel) writes:

    It came in today. It works! Luckily I clled in sick today for mental health day so im going to go to a
    thrift store looking for an old tube tv that i can connect the commodore to
    and
    play around.

    Good for you. Some reasonably modern TVs (or TV-like displays) may work
    as well, if they have S-Video or composite input.

    i have software and games and disc drivces and tape drives to acquire oh my.

    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.

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  • From Daniel@1:340/7 to Anssi Saari on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 00:47:33
    Re: Re: got my c64
    By: Anssi Saari to Daniel on Tue Aug 27 2019 09:27 am

    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.

    Yeah I intend to get the thingy most people hated. Even if I never use it, I want one. I also want the printer, though I'm not sure if it would work and even if it did if I could get printer tape for it still.

    Daniel Traechin
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  • From Shane O'Neill@1:305/3 to Daniel on Thursday, August 29, 2019 19:55:46
    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.

    Yeah I intend to get the thingy most people hated. Even if I never use
    it, I want one. I also want the printer, though I'm not sure if it would work and even if it did if I could get printer tape for it still.

    I'm with you on the thingy most people hated. 2 years ago I picked up a mint Data-Corder Cassette 5880 to replace the one I had back in 1984. I was
    excited after I got it and it loaded Temple Of Apshai!

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  • From Ed Vance@1:2320/105 to Shane O'Neill on Friday, August 30, 2019 06:42:00
    08-29-19 19:55 Shane O'Neill wrote to Daniel about Re: got my c64
    Howdy! Shane and Daniel,

    @MSGID: <5D68BBF1.3244.cbm@capitolcityonline.net>
    @REPLY: <5D669748.3242.cbm@capitolcityonline.net>
    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.

    Yeah I intend to get the thingy most people hated. Even if I never use
    it, I want one. I also want the printer, though I'm not sure if it would work and even if it did if I could get printer tape for it still.

    I'm with you on the thingy most people hated. 2 years ago I picked up
    a mint Data-Corder Cassette 5880 to replace the one I had back in 1984.
    I was excited after I got it and it loaded Temple Of Apshai!

    I remember reading an article/project in a Popular Electronics magazine that used a 7414 I.C. circuit to connect to the C=64 Cassette Port and to the Cassette Tape Recorder's Mike and Speaker Jacks to Save and Load files.

    IIRC the + and - power to run the Circuit came from Pins on the Cassette Port through a small piece cut off of a Printed Circuit Connector.

    The Data To and From the 7414 Circuit also passed through Pins on that Connector.

    Someone after Church told me that it wasn't fun typing Programs in, RUNning them, and losing the program when they turned the 64 OFF.

    I told them about the 7414 project in P-E, they made the circuit and began Saving Programs on Cassette Tape(s).

    UNTIL

    "I" got a C=64 and 1541 FDD and they saw how fast Saving a File to Floppy
    Disk was.

    In a few days they got their own 1541 drive.

    73 de Ed W9ODR . .


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  • From Joacim Melin@3:770/3 to All on Friday, August 30, 2019 21:31:52
    Do you really intend to get a tape drive? The cassette deck thingy tha
    t
    most people hated? IMO, the only use for that thing today would be to
    read any old C64 cassettes you still have around.

    Yeah I intend to get the thingy most people hated. Even if I never use
    it, I want one. I also want the printer, though I'm not sure if it would
    work and even if it did if I could get printer tape for it still.

    I'm with you on the thingy most people hated. 2 years ago I picked
    up a mint
    Data-Corder Cassette 5880 to replace the one I had back in 1984. I
    was
    excited after I got it and it loaded Temple Of Apshai!

    It's still loading? :-D

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