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8-11 year old me made the time because after the sticker shock of two video games, my parents learned about and got me a subscription to Compute! I also spent t
by ygjb 4y ago
8-11 year old me made the time because after the sticker shock of two video games, my parents learned about and got me a subscription to Compute! I also spent the summer gathering up bottles and doing odd tasks so that I could afford to get a disk drive because my siblings kept stealing my tapes to record songs off the radio.
- palisade 4y agoYou could've stopped them by breaking off the plastic covering the read-only hole, it would have prevented writing to the tape. And, then when you were using the tape and wanted to write to it you could cover it with adhesive to make it writable again. As long as they weren't aware they could do the same, your tapes would have been safe. Because, the moment they went to record over it they'd think the tapes were defective or not compatible.
- BeefWellington 4y agoPretty much every kid of that era knew they could make it writeable again with some tape though.