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   On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 2:27:11 AM UTC-4, Anssi Saari wrote:   
      
   > Do you really intend to get a tape drive? The cassette deck thingy that   
   > most people hated? IMO, the only use for that thing today would be to   
   > read any old C64 cassettes you still have around.   
      
   When I got my C64 (December 1982), there was no disk drive available. The only   
   drives out there were the IEEE drives for PET and the VIC-1540 which didn't   
   work with the 64. The ROM upgrade for it wasn't out yet. We LOVED the cassette   
   drive! Especially    
   after the format was revealed to save two complete copies of the program for   
   every save command. It was a very reliable system that compared the second   
   copy automatically. Once we knew what was going on we hacked the ROM routines   
   to only save one copy    
   and cut save and load times in half. The tape drive was still reliable enough   
   to have practically no errors.    
      
   Tom L   
      
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