| 11 Forgotten Media Formats of Yesteryear [message #342162] |
Thu, 11 May 2017 00:52  |
RobertB
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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
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
June 10-11 Pacific Commodore Expo NW -
http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex
July 29-30 Commodore Vegas Expo v13 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex
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| Re: 11 Forgotten Media Formats of Yesteryear [message #342179 is a reply to message #342162] |
Mon, 15 May 2017 05:22  |
Ian McCall
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On 2017-05-11 04:52:13 +0000, rbernardo@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.
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> To read about what they say about the Datasette, see
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> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g3075/the -forgotten-media-of-yesteryear/?src=nl&mag=pop&list= nl_pnl_news&date=050917
Very
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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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| Re: 11 Forgotten Media Formats of Yesteryear [message #342180 is a reply to message #342179] |
Mon, 15 May 2017 05:28 |
Ian McCall
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On 2017-05-15 09:22:44 +0000, Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> said:
> On 2017-05-11 04:52:13 +0000, rbernardo@iglou.com said:
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>> ...To read about what they say about the Datasette, see
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>> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g3075/the -forgotten-media-of-yesteryear/?src=nl&mag=pop&list= nl_pnl_news&date=050917
Very
few
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> 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.
Have just noticed they put in the ST-506 too. Forgotten?! That's just a
hard drive. It was the first model I bought, and I connected it up to
an Atari ST in a home-built enclosure with separately-bought ASCI (yep,
not SCSI) controller and a PSU for it.
Cheers,
Ian
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| Re: 11 Forgotten Media Formats of Yesteryear [message #342194 is a reply to message #342180] |
Sun, 21 May 2017 06:10 |
Clocky
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On 15/05/2017 5:28 PM, Ian McCall wrote:
> On 2017-05-15 09:22:44 +0000, Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> said:
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>> On 2017-05-11 04:52:13 +0000, rbernardo@iglou.com said:
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>>> ...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.
>
> Have just noticed they put in the ST-506 too. Forgotten?! That's just a
> hard drive. It was the first model I bought, and I connected it up to an
> Atari ST in a home-built enclosure with separately-bought ASCI (yep, not
> SCSI) controller and a PSU for it.
>
ST-506 drives were common at one time, hardly a forgotten format.
More forgotten would be the tape port on the original IBM-PC and it's
built in BASIC which continued to be present long after the tape port
had been abandoned.
Not sure if there was ever a IBM-PC specific drive available though.
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