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I'm showing my age, but the first thing I thought of when reading the headline was the Commodore Datasette. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
by jdblair 4y ago
I'm showing my age, but the first thing I thought of when reading the headline was the Commodore Datasette.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
- klondike_klive 4y agoI immediately thought of the musician Datassette - proponent of the micro-genre Business Funk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWa7NoJGWc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWa7NoJGWc
- misterS 4y agoI did, too :) For those that don't know: Datasette is the author/curator of https://musicforprogramming.net https://musicforprogramming.net
- klondike_klive 4y ago...and he contributed music and SFX to Space Rubbish, an awesome bullet-hell Asteroids clone. https://vimeo.com/18472447 https://vimeo.com/18472447
- simonw 4y agoDatasette was named after that disk drive, because the first code I ever wrote was saved to a floppy disk using a C64. I had also assumed it would be a good unique name that I could subscribe to search results for... only to find that the Commodore 64 vintage computing community is still way more active than I had ever imagined!