The records would been at a standard speed found on any turntable, probably 33 because you could fit more onto the small record. Undoubtedly the programs would have been cassette files that you would have loaded as such.
I saw a car record player at a car show once. You put "singles", those 7 inch, 45 rpm records with a big hole into it, into a slot. It undoubtedly was not east on records. Records were not seen as collectible back then, just a cheap way to get music. And then the 8 track tape player put car record players out of business. On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 at 13:23, Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to have to see if I can find one; maybe Walt can tell us > more, i.e. the speed and the magazines that used them. I couldn't find > any info except for this snippet from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program > > "Some UK magazines occasionally offered a free flexi disc that played > on a turntable connected to the microcomputer's cassette input. Other > input methods, such as the Cauzin Softstrip, were tried, without much > success." > > I don't know about commercial muli-ROMs but before Steve's popular REX > and its predecessor came along many folks DIY'd it by replacing the > system ROM or the option ROM with larger EPROMs containing the > original (or modified) system ROM along with one or more ROM images > and a switch on the back to select one; a simple adapter took care of > the non-standard sockets in the M100. > > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 2:43 PM B 9 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 9:13 PM Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I don't know about outer space but that was a fairly popular medium > >> for distributing audio files including computer programs; they were > >> real grooved audio disks similar but smaller than a 45 RPM record but > >> on a thin flexible medium similar to the cookie in a 5 1/4" diskette. > >> [...] I think that's the 'floppy ROM' that Walt is > >> talking about. > > > > > > What! That's extraordinary. I had presumed "floppy ROM" was just an old > Altair term for a ROM one could use to replace a floppy drive (a ROM > cartridge). How well did "Floppy ROMs" work? Did they run at 16⅔ RPM, like > Voyager's Golden Disk to maximize length? I wonder how common it was to > press records (vinyl or otherwise) with executable code. > > > > —b9 > > > > P.S. Wasn't there an expansion for the Tandy 200 that added a ROM > cartridge port (as well as allowing switching between ROMs)? > > >
