[Coco] Transferring files to the MC-10

[Bruce W. Calkins]

Yes, the CoCo does indeed stop and start the cassette with any ASCII 
formatted data and/or program file.  There was much left out of the PoCo to 
annoy a CoCo user.  In spite of the PoCo's low introductory price and 
diminutive appearance, the CoCo was more than 10 times more user friendly 
than the PoCo.

Bruce W.

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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Arthur Flexser"

> 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.
>
> Art
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>>
>>> Are you saying that there is no ASCII save of Basic programs on the
>>> MC-10, so therefore there is no support for loading such files back
>>> in?
>>
>>
>> The MC-10 does NOT have an ASCII save option nor the ability to 
>> re-tokenize
>> an ASCII file at load time.  The CoCo saves ASCII files to cassette using
>> "gap" mode so that during a load, it can stop the cassette player while 
>> it
>> tokenizes the incoming ASCII data.  The MC-10 has no motor control relay
>> and cannot stop the cassette player.  The ASCII and Gap mode flags in the
>> file header are ignored by the MC-10.
>>
>> Darren