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  • Cassette Errors on Model I

    From Thomas Lake@tomlake07@gmail.com to comp.sys.tandy on Mon Oct 17 06:32:08 2016
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    I have a TRS-80 Model I with 48K, a Radio Shack lowercase mod, RS cassette mod and RS Double Density board. The EI is the last model with no buffered cable or pigtail cable. With the EI on but machine started with Break held down (Level II Basic) cassettes are read just fine. When I boot up in either TRSDOS 2.3 or TRSDOS 2.8D, cassettes either show no asterisks or two solid asterisks depending on the volume setting of the recorder. I can never adjust the volume so cassettes are read. I do have the RTC turned off with CMD"T" and have printed TIME$ a few times to verify the RTC is not incrementing the time. I have tried connecting the recorder through the EI and directly to the keyboard. No difference.
    Can anyone suggest what to do from here? I'd really like to copy my many tapes to floppies!
    TIA
    Tom Lake
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  • From lafos33@lafos33@gmail.com to comp.sys.tandy on Tue Oct 18 07:54:12 2016
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    Are you trying to load BASIC or ML (machine language) tapes? If the latter, the tape loading may be overwriting DOS in low memory, locking the machine. If ML, try using the TAPE command

    TAPE (s=source, d=destination)

    T=tape
    D=disk
    R=RAM

    TAPE (s=t,d=d)
    Will load the tape and save to disk. File name is read off the tape, and /CMD is appended when written to disk.

    BASIC programs should use CLOAD and CSAVE, as in Level II BASIC.

    Hope this helps

    Larry
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  • From Thomas Lake@tomlake07@gmail.com to comp.sys.tandy on Thu Oct 20 10:13:05 2016
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    On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 10:54:12 AM UTC-4, laf...@gmail.com wrote:
    Are you trying to load BASIC or ML (machine language) tapes? If the latter, the tape loading may be overwriting DOS in low memory, locking the machine. If ML, try using the TAPE command

    TAPE (s=source, d=destination)

    T=tape
    D=disk
    R=RAM

    TAPE (s=t,d=d)
    Will load the tape and save to disk. File name is read off the tape, and /CMD is appended when written to disk.

    BASIC programs should use CLOAD and CSAVE, as in Level II BASIC.

    Hope this helps

    Larry

    Mea Culpa. I should have been more specific. I can't even load BASIC tapes made with the same recorder. These tapes load fine in Level II whether the EI is on or off but won't load in Disk BASIC even when the RTC is stopped.

    Tom L
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  • From golem@golem@wherever.nix to comp.sys.tandy on Mon Oct 24 08:20:59 2016
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    Thomas Lake wrote:

    Mea Culpa. I should have been more specific. I can't even load BASIC tapes made with the same recorder. These tapes load fine in Level II whether the
    EI is on or off but won't load in Disk BASIC even when the RTC is stopped.

    Does your Disk BASIC load/save in both tokenised and ASCII modes?


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