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It took us literally minutes to boot WordPerfect on our school PCs

• flohofwoe 3y ago
  That's why software often came on ROM cartridges for home computers. Floppy disks and cassette tapes were just a cheap compromise.
• notpachet 3y ago
  Yeah, when reading the part about slow boot times, I was thinking about back when we still had to boot from floppy...
• mike_hearn 3y ago
  That's nothing. I remember when booting a game required loading it from cassette tape. Me and my friends would go round to each other's houses, start the computer loading a game, go outside to play a football match and when we got back it'd be nearly ready to start.
  • ryandrake 3y ago
    I mean, there's booting, and then there's loading a program... My Commodore 64 from the early 80s booted to a full BASIC REPL in around 1 second. Yes, loading from removable media was slow, but the computer was ready to fully use in less time than it takes "modern" systems to even POST. Totally ridiculous.