Re: Help with SX64 User Port?

From: earth1dome1 <*earth1dome1_at_yahoo.com*> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:56:30 -0700 Message-ID: <1x24m10bv8hjkklkbwh49722.1498683390194@email.android.com> · earth1dome1_at_yahoo.com

Have you ever thought that the user port need was for modems and other Hardware so it was already busy and used

Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device-------- Original message --------From: smf <smf@null.net> Date: 6/28/2017  6:51 AM  (GMT-08:00) To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de Subject: Re: Help with SX64 User Port? 
On 28/06/2017 14:13, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
> The reason to discard the IEEE bus was the fact that the cables were 
> too expensive so they designed the IEC bus.

I believe it was the connector on the motherboard that was the main 
problem. You could charge a fortune for a drive cable if someone wanted 
a drive, but you wouldn't want to lumber all the tape users with that cost.

They should have just used the user port.

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