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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

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