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Yeah. For me in 1983 loading something meant 5 mins waiting for the cassette to play through. Switching to a different program meant repeating the process again

• gilbetron 9y ago
  One of the computers I had was cassette tape based, and the tape "reader" broke. I was rather shocked to find I could use my parents cassette player and connect its output to my computer, and it would (generally) read tapes just fine. As a bonus, I figured out how to have the speakers on the tape player on at the same time so I could listen to my programs being read in :D