Comment by mobilene
4 years ago
This is old school. When I first wrote code back in the Stone Age we used to store our stuff on cassette tape.
4 years ago
This is old school. When I first wrote code back in the Stone Age we used to store our stuff on cassette tape.
You had cassette tape?? Lucky... I had to write my 1's and 0's in the dirt with a stick.
Damn rain.
You guys had dirt?
You guys had atoms? When I was a lad, there were only photons.
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I still have my Atari 400 and tape drive!
My family had Atari 400 with a tape drive. I remembered buying a tape with a game. We also use it for basic programming language and the Astroids game using a cartridge.
Yep, I had the BASIC cartridge and used the tape drive almost exclusively for that. Coded up all sorts of little projects on that machine. I hated the membrane keyboard, but it worked!
Ha ha, when I was a kid with my C64, I used my moms old reel-to-reel tape deck to store data.
I still have a C64 and tape drive.
There was a magazine in the 80’s where you could scan in the code with a bar code scanner.