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It was the steampunk age of the digital era. Before floppy drives we recorded our data on cassette tapes.

what kind of cassette tapes? i've listened to lots of music on cassette tapes, but didn't know they were used for other sorts of data

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The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

The same kind. This was the storage device of the first computer I had as a kid.

HoloKat 1y ago

I think I got on just after tapes. We had giant floppy disks the size of small plates

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

My second computer had the 5.25” disks where you could use a physical hole puncher to break the edge of the case on a certain spot to make it read-only, and then you covered it with Scotch tape if you wanted to write over it again.

HoloKat 1y ago

yep, these look like the ones!

tanel 1y ago

never touched anything Atari, this looks really cool, love the design

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

The design was cool but it took forever to save and load the data.

jamw 1y ago

Awesome!

jamw 1y ago

Used one of these back in the day…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

tanel 1y ago

damn

they used to design so clean products back in the day

what happened

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

Old computers were marvels of 80s design. Steve Jobs used to work for Atari and made some of their first video games.

tanel 1y ago

i do know that part, read steve's biography

jamw 1y ago

Normal ones in many cases. Loading games via cassette tape was typical.