I've loaded/saved computer programs from/to a cassette tape.
By
Wyscan
on May 03, 2007
Not big half inch reel to reel tape. A cassette tape. Like the kind that you might find in a car (not an eight track). It was a specialized cassette player that allowed the recording to be started / stopped from a port on the computer.
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O hell ya. Atari 400 - Membrane kb - Tape drive - 40 col printer with heat transfer paper. I am just after punch cards.
I did big reels as well.
I first programmed on a Commodore Pet
Commodore 128
Commodore Vic 20 BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C64!
The C64 had a great OS. You could type in the geometric equasions for any shape and it would graph it for you, wham!
My C64 only had a Floppy (though those "Press Play On Tape" messages suddenly make so much more sense now)
The Coleco Adam was pretty cool. Mine had two tape drives, very fast and all automated, no need to press any button. But you had to drill a couple of small holes in a normal tape to use them inside that drive.
The TRS-80 and Atari 2600 (with the right hardware) could both read from cassette tape. I'm pretty sure the Atari couldn't write, but I think the TRS-80 could.
I've played a game played on vinyl, does that count?
Hm... I remember my geek youth and masochistic moments of "tape loading (t)errors" on ZX Spectrum. :-)
I also remember recording programs from a radio program. Have you had such a geeky radio station in your neck of the woods?
Shonzilla, do you mean binary over the airwaves? I've thought of doing that myself a long time ago, but never seen it done.
Robin, that's what I meant - bits and bleeps over the airwaves. :-)
If WiFi (i.e. 11 Mbps) worked in 2000 then why shouldn't 1500 baud work in 80s and 90s. ;-)
FM airwaves support greater bandwidths anyway...