I just sold my two nice minty 810's and of all things I've decided to keep was a 1010 recorder I bought at a retro-gaming shop because I wanted the SIO cable. Sounds crazy, but it makes sense to me. I have two SDRIVEs, one is a NUXX and the other is an SDRIVE Micro. Maintaining floppies, hauling a 8 lb 810 with its bulk just does not compute anymore. For grins, I fired up the 1010 and after 30+ years, its still worked. Oh, but the memories of my first Atari 400 and my 410 recorder. What really struck me was that familiar feeling hearing that 8 second lead in tone and the too familiar 600 baud garble. Brought me way back to the beginning (Christmas 1981). My SDRIVEs are the way to go, but for nostalgia, its hard to top a cassette. I managed to use a cassette for the first 1.5 years until I could afford an 810.
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