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I find the reuse of the term "datasette" quite jarring. You'll pollute my retro searches! :-) The same thing happened with the "BBC Micro:bit" which was roughl
by bencollier49 4y ago
I find the reuse of the term "datasette" quite jarring. You'll pollute my retro searches! :-)
The same thing happened with the "BBC Micro:bit" which was roughly in the same field, unlike this one.
- simonw 4y agoOne of the reasons I picked the name (aside from having grown up with a C64) is that I assumed it would be unique enough today that I could use it to get alerts for mentions. Doesn't work as well as I hoped: My F5Bot subscription on Reddit catches a lot more C64 retro chat than it does mentions of my software! Quite a bit of it in German. Turns out there are way more people out there using a tape drive that was released in the 80s than I had expected.
- kgwxd 4y agoI saw this post this morning and thought it was a cool name but didn't open it. Then I just watched the newest 8-Bit Guy video and saw it again, came back here to see if this was about that and found these comments :)