Topic: Fun Poll: Who here remembers loading software with a cassette tape? (Read 7882 times)

Green · « **Reply #20 on:** October 04, 2009, 07:37:39 pm »

We had a stack of punch cards AND WE LIKED 'EM!

TAnimaL · « **Reply #21 on:** October 05, 2009, 02:31:39 pm »

punch cards for me too, that's how I learned BASIC.
Couldn't afford a computer, but I had a friend with who I spent many hours loading programs into a TRS-80 so we could play games.
And when we were bored at the mall, we'd stop by Radio SHack and type a quick 4 or 5 line BASIC program into the TRS80 on display so that it would start adding "1" to the previous line and keep adding until the cows came home. We thought that was hysterical...

Strayy · « **Reply #22 on:** October 05, 2009, 08:21:15 pm »

Gads!!! trs-80's ??? thanks TAnimal.... now I dont feel old and alone

remember makin a slot machine program to run on that p.o.s.

candle_86 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 06, 2009, 09:52:26 pm »

first computer I used wasnt my own but it was in 1992 at school, Kindergarten to be excat, we had to inset a floopy and type A:\paint.exe. I loved the 2 weeks we got in the computer lab playing with it for art. The principle got alot of angry parents saying our kids dont need to play on a computer at school, they will never need them. He was quite forward thinking id say.

Pestalence_XC · « **Reply #24 on:** October 07, 2009, 04:16:39 am »

My first system was an Adam 8088 then an Adam 8086, then C64 then C128, then Apple II c, and e, then IBM x286 , x386, then Intel x486 SX, LX, DX, DX2, DX4, Pentium I, I version 2, Pent II, III, IV, IV x2 (over 1 Ghz version), Pentium Duo, Intel Core 2, and currently Intel i7.

Yep.. I go all the way back to cassette tapes and plug in cartridges and even card reader in some cases.

Hmm let's see I am 35 years old now and I have been messing with computers since I was 4 years old.. god.. way too much I have forgotten over the years that many this day and age will never know.

as for OS's.. DOS MS dos and Dr Dos and several other DoS programs / versions, OS2 Warp Gold, windows 3.1, Windows 95 , 98, me, 2K, XP, 2K5, 2K8, Vista, and now Windows 7. probably many in there I forgot to list.. but then again it has been quite a while.

Nemesis · « **Reply #25 on:** October 07, 2009, 07:32:33 am »

Quote from: Andromeda on October 02, 2009, 01:22:49 am

A friend of mine's dad still has his Commodore 64 and uses it... He's a major engineering geek. That was my first experience with a computer.

Challenge him to a game of Netracer.

Lono · « **Reply #26 on:** October 07, 2009, 05:05:10 pm »

I started on the Apple II-e - with the 5 1/4 Floppy - although I actually got a commodore later with the cartridge and tapes - and I messed with a whole lot of Vic-20's and TRS-80's and the like in the mid 80's...

Ahh - I used to love the hardware hack of using a hole puncher on the 5 1/4 floppies to make them double sided - so very anti-establishment

Gotta love the no need to change DVD's now days - but Kids (who bitch about having to configure PC's games nowdays) don't know what they missed - stuff like that builds character!

Now Get OFF MY LAWN!!!!

Nemesis · « **Reply #27 on:** October 07, 2009, 06:29:58 pm »

Quote from: Lono on October 07, 2009, 05:05:10 pm

Ahh - I used to love the hardware hack of using a hole puncher on the 5 1/4 floppies to make them double sided - so very anti-establishment

I bought literally hundreds of Nashua single sided floppies and used them as double sided (no punching needed). About 1% failed on the 2nd side. Nashua was the no name brand of Dysan, just about the top brand of floppies.

Age · « **Reply #28 on:** October 07, 2009, 06:53:41 pm »

I started with 51/4 disks as I am late to computing and my first rig was a hp560W.I still have it but I use custom built one now.I saved more of my info on 31/2 floppies.

Czar Mohab · « **Reply #29 on:** October 07, 2009, 10:13:23 pm »

Growing up I had access to all kinds of compy's, but I can only recall the C128, Tandy 1000 and apple IIe by name... there was one we had in the corner (next to the Tandy) whose sole purpose in life was word processing, but I'll be darned if I can remember anything more about it than the monochrome (orange, btw) screen... the C128 we had for a while was my first first compy; but then there was other people's computers - back when DOS was king and Oregon Trail was the big game to have in school (turns out, still is, locally at least) ... Before I date myself here, I have to mention that at the time I was tinkering with the C128, 486s were just hitting the main stream market - we were dirt floor poor and the C128 was a hand-me-down, and I was the fourth owner.

I was just the other day talking to a co-worker about laser discs (as in, what ever happened to the...) and he brought up the 10" computer information saving media, along with stacks of punch cards and other "old school" media that I've only heard of in passing or have a vague memory of.

I have not seen all the various forms of media that others have, but it amazes me how far we have come - and yet, all I have to do right now is head out to the garage and fire up the old Packard-Bell P1 (166Mhz - WOOT!) and get a taste for the good old days.

Czar "I'm waiting for the follow up post that says, "Phooey! Back in my day home computers were as big as the house!"" Mohab

762_XC · « **Reply #30 on:** October 10, 2009, 08:22:54 pm »

When I was young, we didn't have no new fangled cassette tapes. We had our data encoded upon birch tree bark by sparrows. And we liked it.

You liked it too Stephen, you old fart.

Age · « **Reply #31 on:** October 11, 2009, 01:56:29 am »

Quote from: 762_XC on October 10, 2009, 08:22:54 pm

When I was young, we didn't have no new fangled cassette tapes. We had our data encoded upon birch tree bark by sparrows. And we liked it.

You liked it too Stephen, you old fart.

Yeah.When some were playing around with computers I was playing around with cars swung my first wrench at 6 years old.I got into drag racing at 12 years old.

Capt. Mike · « **Reply #32 on:** October 11, 2009, 08:03:31 am »

Gawd, I remember my Atari 800..I was working swing shift when I was stationed in Utah, I'd call the Mrs. at 2000 to load the German invasion of the USSR so it would be ready when I got home..

Anyone have a PC version of Alternate Reality?

Mike

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