1982 · Peripheral
Commodore Datasette (1530) (1982)
Commodore's cheap cassette recorder for the VIC-20 and C64.
Stored roughly 100 KB per 30 minute side at about 50 bytes per second, with third-party turbo loaders speeding it up. It was the budget alternative to the costly 1541 floppy drive.
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Facts
- Date
- 1982
- Kind
- Peripheral: Storage drive
- Maker or publisher
- Commodore
- Platforms
- Commodore 64
- Speed
- ~50 B/s
- Capacity
- ~100 KB per side
- Connector
- Edge connector (1530)
- Connection
- Commodore cassette port
- Works with
- Commodore 64
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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- Commodore 64 (works with, 1982)
- Commodore VIC-20 (works with, 1981)
- Commodore 1541 (rival, 1982)
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