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I had it too, but typed them into my Atari 800 - after which I'd save it to cassette tape.
by CWuestefeld 8y ago
I had it too, but typed them into my Atari 800 - after which I'd save it to cassette tape.
- jptoto 8y agoNice! My Commodore PET had a tape cassette drive. It was SOO unreliable.
- cr0sh 8y agoMy first machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with a cassette tape drive; compared to the PET, due to the "generation difference" (probably in the encoding method?) - plus Radio Shack - it's cassette storage was actually really reliable. People are still pulling old software and data off of some of their old CoCo tapes, what little problems there are typically can be solved by dumping to digital file and editing in some audio software to clean things up.
- ddgflorida 8y agoSame here - 16K Tandy Color Computer I from 1981-2. It was great for doing Numerical Analysis homework.
- jefurii 8y agoMy first computer was a TRS-80 Model I. The cassette tape storage was just Radio Shack's regular tape recorder. For some reason you had to use different volume settings for BASIC and machine language programs. The volume setting was horribly imprecise and I was always having to reload programs. The Commodore 64's tape recorder was a big upgrade.
- reaperducer 8y agoI got my Commodore 64 for Christmas, and had NO storage until months later when I got a 1541 for my birthday. Every time I turned the power off or wanted to try a different program I had to start from scratch.