First personal storage media...

From: John Higginbotham <higginbo_at_netpath.net>
Date: Fri Jun 19 21:08:17 1998

At 09:25 PM 6/18/98 -0700, Larry Anderson wrote:

> I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as
>some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had
>been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette
>rewinds it, it is still readable.

I too started with cassettes, but in my early years it was Apple II and
Commodore VIC-20/C-64/C-16 tapes. A friend of mine (the owner of the C-16)
didn't have a datasette. He's pretty artistic; he'd sit there for hours,
plotting graphics through BASIC to the screen, only to lose it all when the
power was offed. He did have a VCR though, and would record the images on
VHS tape. (I wonder what he ever did with that tape, anyway?)


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