Hey, that’s a very interesting way to look at things!
True story - there was once such a thing as a cassette tape to 8-track tape adapter. Don’t ask how I know or what kind of old beat-up cars I once had at my disposal…
I still have my original 12” Blue Monday floppy!
Peeling off the cellophane from a brand new TDK SA 90. Tuning the FM stereo like a sonar expert. Green light fades to red.
in some ways yes and other ways no
It only used to take about 45 minutes to load Road Rash from tape onto my C64… sometimes I didn’t turn it off for days to save time…
I had some kind of Texas Instruments computer and these books of code you had to type in and then it would play very simple visual games. It had a cassette recorder that you could record the code onto after typing it or something like that, I barely remember, I was like five… When playing the tape back into the machine it would sound like a dial up modem… I think, it’s super vague in my mind…
Also had pong! The first home video game…
How bout those graphics!
I vaguely remember the time when a floppy disk was actually floppy
Back in those days, Rephlex label would only listen to your demoes if they were on minidiscs. Think about that : a record label asking you to send music in a lossy compressed format.
Somewhere I have an original Gescom minidisc.
Cool topic here! - I used to sit for hours with my best mate reading the code from a magazine while he typed it in on his Commodore Vic 20 - we’d take it in turns and then save the game (dial up modem sounds haha) onto tape and then run it back on the computer hooked up to a 14"colour TV - did the same with a ZX Spectrum (very snazzy at the time) - actually had a ZX81 too. I even still remember how to code some things in Basic - We programmed in Assembly too… fun days!
I think Gridrunner was my fave game back then…
So I said something about floppy discs and went to bed and then I woke up to this somebody call Jeff Minter, it’s time to bring in the llamas.
Things were definitely better back in the day. Shorter attack, higher sustain and don’t even get me started on the release
Haha, takes me back.
“Yes, I know this disc isn’t floppy, but no - it’s not a damn hard disc!”.
And here’s where it all began, for Elektron and many of us as well.