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The previous section dealt in detail with cassette files because the standard machines (model A and model B) are fitted with all the circuitry to enable cassette recorders to be used to store and to retrieve data.
Other filing systems can, of course, be used with the BBC Microcomputer. However, each of these will require additional hardware which will be accompanied by its own detailed instructions. Consequently, details are not given in this guide, for example, of the disc filing system. What is given below, however, is a list of the commands to enable the user to change from one filing system to another.
| *TAPE | Selects the cassette filing system running at the default speed of 120 characters per second (1200 baud) |
| *TAPE3 | Selects the cassette filing system running at 30 characters per second (300 baud) |
| *TAPE12 | Selects the cassette file system at 1200 baud |
| *DISC | These two statements select the disc file |
| *DISK | system so that all future file operations (e.g. LOAD and SAVE), work to the floppy disc units |
| *NET | Selects the network file system for all future file operations |
| *ROM | selects the ROM cartridge file system |
The BBC Microcomputer User Guide was written by John Coll and edited by David Allen for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Optical character recognition and original formatting effort by Mark Usher.
HTML version maintained by: Kade "Archer" Hansson; e-mail: archer@dialix.com.au
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2001