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hactar42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • AugustWest@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can’t remember if the tape drive came with a TRS-80, but I do remember using the tape drive port to get sound from games like pacman. Basically it was hack to use the save to cassette to make sounds for the computer.

        This game contains programming which produces sound effects that leave the computer through the AUX plug in the cassette cable. To hear the sound follow these instructions: First, load in the game. Remove the tape from the recorder if you loaded the game from cassette. Insert the large grey plug on the cassette cable into the AUX jack on the recorder. Insert an earphone into the jack labeled EAR on the recorder. Pop open the cassette door on the top of the recorder and reach in and hold in the interlock switch that is located in the left rear corner. Now press Record & Play together and then release the interlock switch. Sound should now come through the earphone.

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    • panicnow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I’m also old. Goddamnit.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did your dad ever find out if it was real, or if it was Memorex?

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe it’s Maybeline!

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you get old enough everyone’s parents used to work for a big tech company. My mother who can barely operate her phone, used to work for a company that manufactured microchips.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My mother used to work for a company that made magnetic core memory.

      That’s the kind of memory that predates semiconductors and it was assembled by hand using gold wire and tiny ferrite rings.

      She does know how to use a PC and has a tablet, though 😀

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk

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• wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You shut your pretty little whore mouth! I loved Pitfall!

    …but also I was 4, and as we all know, kids are stupid.

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    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When I was four I loved pong.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I read this while I was power walking to the bus stop. I read it as:

        When I was four I loved pegging.

        I had SO MANY questions. None of which I wanted answered.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pong is still arguably a balanced, and therefore good game. Especially if you were playing the Atari or Texas Instruments versions, since those may have been some of the last mainstream video games that didn’t cheat in favor of anyone. Neither the player or the computer was favored, which became the norm for most video games rather quickly thereafter.

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• dparticiple@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  LOAD “*”,8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn’t know what they missed.)

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Non No Falsch Nee
  all of those work in German.

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• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fucking Geos man… I remember doing homework on its word processor…

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