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Thanks. What a lovely nostalgia trip! Ways of 'downloading' in my childhood, in decreasing order of unreliability: * Via the television, holding a cassette re
by hanoz 8y ago
Thanks. What a lovely nostalgia trip!
Ways of 'downloading' in my childhood, in decreasing order of unreliability:
* Via the television, holding a cassette recorder microphone to the tele speaker, after staying up till after midnight to catch it.
* Buying a magazine with a bendy plastic 45 record stuck to the cover and playing it on a record player, again probably using the microphone because you didn't have the right leads.
* From the radio. Woohoo, straight to the integrated cassette recorder. Although even then I don't think I ever got even that to work. Mind you it was pretty hit and miss loading an 'original' tape on the ZX Spectrum.
* Typing it in from a magazine. It took an afternoon, but at least you got to correct your mistakes. Unless it was a particularly crashy mistake.
And, wow, out out nowhere I've suddenly recalled having one of my own, a wordsearch solver, published in one of them. My first upload! Those were the days, I'm welling up!
- PeterStuer 8y agoOh, those dodgy copies of black dots on silver thermal paper scrolls they copied into the those Spectrum magazines. Good times, but not for that reason :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Printer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Printer
- zimpenfish 8y agoAnd now people are hawking essentially those same printers (albeit with less shiny paper) as "Personal Bluetooth Printers" for ££. The world of technology is bonkers.
- handelaar 8y agoCorrecting the errors after my kid sister spent a couple hours typing in the listing for some game she liked the look of is exactly how I learned to program in BBC Basic in about 1983. Doing beats reading, then as now