From: nospam.Mike.Powell@f1.n770.z2662.fidonet.org   
      
   > The other day I dug out some cassettes which had Pet programs saved on   
   > them around, I would estimate, 1979. To my great surprise they were   
   > still readable! I am fairly astonished about that, and certainly delighted!   
      
   A couple of years ago, I found all of my old TI99 cassettes, which were   
   written to around 1981-83.  They mostly were also still good!  In my case,   
   the only way I could figure to get them transfered was to buy a floppy   
   drive (from ebay, I think) that worked with the TI99, install it, load the   
   cassettes into memory on the TI and then write the program data back out to   
   floppy.   
      
   If, for some reason, I want then copy those to my PC, there are some   
   utilities for that (at least, that run under DOS).   
      
   I am not sure about your CBM platform, but maybe there is an easier way. :)   
      
   Mike   
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