When I said "tape drive", I was actually thinking mostly of cassette
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023, Mike Katz wrote:
I think you forgot the most common storage back then. Audio cassette at 300
or 1200 baud.
On 8/30/2023 5:39 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023, Wayne S wrote:
When s-100 machines came out, they were standalone. The serial port was
for sending serial data not for a terminal. You would have to write some
software to use it with a terminal.
Of course.
To do anything with it, you needed some input and output.
Either a good front panel, or
a serial port plus software for a terminal, or
a keyboard input with software, plus a video board with software.
paper tape for storage, so as to not have to key in every program evey
time, or
a tape drive, or a disk drive.
By the end of the 1970s, computers were being sold with terminal or
keyboard/video hardware and software, and then disk drives and an operating
system. BASIC on paper tape, ROM, or disk, . . .
By the end of the 1970s, you did not need to be an electronics/comupter
hobbyist to buy and use a personal computer.
It became possible, without even a scope and soldering iron!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
