On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 6:12 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > I'm not familiar with PLATO cassettes. Are those attached to terminals? > The oldest data cassettes I know of are on the TI Silent 733 terminals -- > which were thought of as paper tape emulation done on audio cassettes, at > 300 bps. But I've never heard of anything like that on PLATO. The closest > similar thing I can think of is floppy disks, which were used as > peripherals to store "micro TUTOR" programs for some later terminals. The > current PLATO emulation at cyber1.org supports this. > The Silent 700 uses digital cassette tapes. I'm not sure what the actual difference is between them and audio cassettes except for the notch on the top side. Sellam
