> On Mar 8, 2023, at 7:25 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
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> On 3/7/2023 8:30 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
>> > I’m working on a project, and I need to know the age of various tape
>> > formats. For example when were 6250bpi 700’ 9-Track tapes or DC600A
>> > cartridges introduced? Is there any good resource online that
>> > documents this? Wikipedia is of some help, but the older you go, the
>> > spottier it is.
>>
>> For QIC, qic.org has a some info. For DLT and LTO, the wikipedia pages
>> are fairly useful.
>
> What about the data cassettes used on things like Plato? Not at all like the
> audio cassettes later used on home computers.
>
> bill
I asked on Cyber1 and got a single reply, but it wasn't all that definitive:
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Was there any PLATO/NovaNet arrangements with Atari like
there was for Texas Instruments computers? The TI system
used a cartridge if I remember. Atari had ROM cartridges
as well as a cassette attachment to store programs written
in ATARI BASIC. The cassette device looked like a standard
cassette recorder that was attached to the ATARI 800 using
a proprietary serial port. Could this be what they were
referring to?
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paul
