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Ahhh, you kids that started with the Commodore 64/1541 and 170k of capacity. I started with a TRS-80 Model 1 with a Shugart SA-400 drive connected to an expans
by tssva 6y ago
Ahhh, you kids that started with the Commodore 64/1541 and 170k of capacity.
I started with a TRS-80 Model 1 with a Shugart SA-400 drive connected to an expansion interface. 85K capacity.
- Jedd 6y agoWell, I started with a VIC20 and a tape drive -- but in terms of floppy disks, that wasn't until sometime after the C64 arrived. My neighbour was a developer working in assembler, producing games for the TRS-80, and my first 'real' (as in monies being handed over) job was as a tape-copying, paper-folding, inserting-both-into-a-ziplock-bag monkey.
- rasz 6y agoC64 tape with turbo holds ~1MB
- tssva 6y agoThe original comment was regarding floppy drives so I mentioned the first computer with a floppy drive I used. The first computer I would have used was my father's Heathkit ET-3400 microprocessor learning system in 1976. That required each time typing in the machine code for the high/low game I played on it. The TRS-80 Model 1 was purchased a year or so later and originally had a tape drive.