18 Jun
1998
18 Jun
'98
4:25 p.m.
From: Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk
Subject: Re[2]: CP/M
Likewise the Commodore 8-bitters. In the early 1980s,
I was one of the
first in my school (I was 14 or so at the time) to own a floppy disk
(yes, a disk, not a drive).
Gosh what memories, did you lug around a box of cassettes too??? Yeah,
disks back then were about $5.00 (US) a shot [not to be confused with
ammunition in previous off topics, though I can wield a mean VIC-20] for the
cheap SS/SD ones.
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as
some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had
been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette
rewinds it, it is still readable.
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