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> This is a bit rose-tinted. You can pick from a huge variety of floppy drive readers available on amazon, most for less than 20 bucks. Back to 3.5" / 1440kb i
by mlyle 4y ago
> This is a bit rose-tinted. You can pick from a huge variety of floppy drive readers available on amazon, most for less than 20 bucks.
Back to 3.5" / 1440kb is not too bad. Though the new drives are kinda crap compared to old ones in reading many disks.
But going back a little further-- reading Mac 800k disks, or 5.25" floppies, or things that are not DOS formatted--- gets harder and harder.
- codazoda 4y agoJust a little farther back, however, and things ease again to audio tape technology. I’m still able to use my TRS-80 CoCo today because it used audio. I’ve adapted a cable to my digital audio recorder. It was built in about 1984 and it still works. It’s rather difficult to use compared to modern computers though.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoYour 1984 self had nothing else to compare it to - your current self has had several computers since to compare it to to make the determination that "It’s rather difficult to use compared to modern computers though." This is part of Berry's argument as well: once you jump on the tech treadmill it's hard to get off.