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One of the disadvantages of buying a disc system is that your tolerance of the slow loading of cassette files soon becomes very much lower, even to the extent of you avoiding favourite programs on cassette. The process of copying cassette files for use on the disc system is by no means simple and can be extremely time consuming and frustrating. There also exists some confusion as to whether or not a program may legally be copied and the protection devices coded into a program to prevent this make conversion all the harder.

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© 1986 R. I. M. Sadek

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Sadek, R.I.M. (1986). Cassette-to-Disc Transfer. In: The Complete Disc Manual for the BBC Microcomputer. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08590-3_6

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08590-3_6

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave, London

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