tape recorder. Adapters were available that used an analog-to-digital converter to allow use of a standard recorder, but these cost only a little less than the Datasette.

The command may be used with the optional parameter which will load a program into the memory address contained in the first two bytes of the file (these bytes are discarded and not retained in memory). If the parameter is not used, the program will load into the start of the BASIC program area, which widely differs