And thusly were the wise words spake by Chuck Guzis
Feh. Most of the software of the 80's was written to floppy, an
That is true for America, but for the C64 in Europe most of the
game software was on tape as the floppy drives were so
expensive there.
Cheers,
Bryan
excellent storage medium. Give me a 20-year old
8" floppy any day to
a 2-year old 1.44MB 3.5" diskette. How many 80's (not 70's) systems
used cassette tape as primary storage? True, the DC-xxxx carts are
starting to have problems, but in most cases, this was used as
backup, not a distribution medium. In many cases, the problem is
with the aging rubber in the drive, not the medium itself.