Post #2910753
2026-03-14 19:44 UTC
@chainq@mastodon.social Datasettes were the standard in the UK. I didn't know anyone back in the day with a floppy drive until the early 90s when some friends started getting Amigas, and they were considered rich and lucky! I must say, my original C16 back in the 80's and my current expanded C16 rarely let me down loading from Datasette. But I do use a Tapuino these days to load/save .tap files.
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@chainq@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 20:04
@nohaironheed@mastodon.scot They were around in Europe much longer indeed, and even longer in the ex-East Bloc. Even for Commodore 64s, which I had. Used it with only a Datasette until late '94, when I got a 386sx PC "for the school". I still have a soft spot for the C264 series though, because we had them in Hungary as school computers, so it was the first computer I ever had access to as a kid, and wrote my first BASIC programs on them. So even if I never owned one until much later, I love these things.