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I suppose I should have included the quotes: "sound circuitry." But since krebizfan didn't, I just decided not to begin another discussion.

Exactly. TSR-80s have cassette ports, we have to have them too. Tandys can work with TVs... In fact, back then some of the people...

I think these are both evidence that IBM was trying to cover all the bases. Though they were probably thinking mainly about the...

Exactly. Technical sense doesn't always make it in the real world. Non-technical obstacles can add unnecessary steps sometimes.

I was considering that nice, "perfect" digital audio recordings of programs would be more reliable than analog cassette recordings when...

While it's not Xenix source code, there is System III source available here...

Thanks for that! It looks like an interesting addition for this thread. Great, then I have a little more about this: Okay, now I'm...

Plasma and krebizfan make a good case against audio storage taking off on the IBM. Just in case anyone mistakes the tone, what follows...

Inserting a VGA card in a slot will not be the only thing you have to do to try getting video output external to the onboard Paradise...

That's what I was thinking when I questioned the transformer's condition. Also, I thought that voltages higher than expected coming...

That's unfair! Stealing a guy's idea 38 years before he thought of it. At least they didn't get the audio CD angle! Seriously...

What about the transformer itself being faulty?

Hi all, Just wanted to share my little show-and-tell YouTube video I made of my loading the old PC Booter game "PC-MAN" from cassette...

I for one like seeing this project! Imagine being able to get use out of your cassette port for programs that should have been...

All four are confirmed as polyester capacitors. C614 & C615 are 0.1uF, C631 & C634 are 0.033uF. But, if I traced correctly, they go...