Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>The PET and microcomputer cassette interfaces were before my time but
>looking at
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datassette
>
>was interesting. It was apparently a standard cassette recorder with
>some adc/dac's and a special edge connector. In particular the article
>doesn't say whether the computer could start and stop the tape transport
>or rewind the tape under software control. Do you know if that was
>possible?

IIRC it was not.

- anton
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