[Coco] Transferring files to the MC-10

Chris Osborn fozztexx at fozztexx.com
Sat Oct 5 18:41:13 EDT 2013


On Oct 5, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Does the CoCo actually stop the tape player when loading an ASCII
> file?  I'd have thought the tokenizing process would be fast enough to
> more than keep up with the cassette motion.  Especially if there are
> silent gaps between blocks to allow the CoCo to catch up.

Yes, the CoCo constantly stops and starts the tape both when writing ASCII BASIC and reading it.




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