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ZipTape: A fast tape interface for the PAL-1

ZipTape: Fast Tape Interface for the PAL-1

ZipTape is a fast cassete interface for the PAL-1 system, originally described in the February 1977 issue of BYTE magazine¹, and later adapted for the KIM-1².

This implementation is intended to plug in to the PAL-1 RIOT Expansion Module³.

Footnotes

1. Daniel Lomax, ‘The Impossible Dream Cassette Interface’, BYTE, 2.2 (1977), 82–85. ↩

2. Lew Edwards, ‘FAST CASSETTE INTERFACE DESCRIPTION’, 1978 http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/kim-1-manuals-and-software/kim-1-articles/kim-1-ziptape/ [accessed 25 January 2023]. ↩

3. Liu Ganning, ‘RIOT EXPANSION’, 2021 http://pal.aibs.ws/assets/RIOT_expansion_manual.pdf [accessed 25 January 2023]. ↩