[Coco] Transferring files to the MC-10

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 18:41:57 EDT 2013


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:28 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.
>
>
The CoCo does stop the tape player while loading ASCII.  It may not need to
do so, but that's the way "gap" mode works (same code used for INPUT# data
files).

Darren



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