• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    And before A: and B:, we had cassette tape decks for our Commodores!

    It took 40 minutes to load a program.

    You don’t know what a cassette or a Commodore is, do you? Damn kids, get off my lawn

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        9 days ago

        I think a lot of people who know what a cassette is would be surprised by one that holds computer files.

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      9 days ago

      I had a cassette drive for my CoCo3 from RadioShack.

      I spent a weekend typing in code in BASIC from a magazine to play a shitty pacman clone, tried to save it to the tape, and forgot the first few inches on a new cassette aren’t magnetic and can’t save anything…

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        9 days ago

        But have you seen Sonic the Hedgehog run at 60 FPS on a C64 though the magic of the REU’s DMA? PRAISE BE THE FORGOTTEN!