• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Lol you rich kids and your cassette drives. I cut my teeth on my friend’s VIC-20 which didn’t have a hard disk or a tape drive (they were available but my friend’s parents couldn’t afford one). If we wanted to play a game, we had to type it in in BASIC every time.

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      6 months ago

      My ZX Spectrum clone didn’t have a “tape drive”, it had a cable that you could use to connect any tape player to it. We didn’t have a specialized tape player for it, we attached the same one we played music on.

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      6 months ago

      I had the pleasure of working with 8” floppy drives with the Social Security Administration.