>I still have the floppies, though I very much doubt if they'd read any more I think you might be surprised. Those low-density floppies were remarkably DURABLE

>I still have the floppies, though I very much doubt if they'd read any more I think you might be surprised. Those low-density floppies were remarkably DURABLE. I have a whole pile of 8" and 5.25" floppies from the late 1970s / early 80s and even after decades of storage in less-than-ideal circumstances nearly all of them worked the last time I fed them to a TRS80 or my old Apple ][ about 5 years ago. (I was just as surprised the computer power supplies were still functional after this time, as electrolytic caps aren't exactly known for their longevity). Looking at code written when I was 12 is equal parts bemusement and cringe. Text adventures, BBS (bulletin board systems), Video game copies of arcade hits (space invaders in Basic. Donkey Kong in 6502 Assembly, A half-written tempest clone...) all are terrible judged by today's standards, but I thought they were amazing at the time. Speaking of amazement, I have no idea how I was able to accomplish anything without a search function, autocomplete, or google search. Just a blinking block in a text editor.