Darren New wrote:

> Warp wrote:
>>   Maybe if you implemented the sine function evaluation as the evaluation
>> of a fourier series, in BASIC,
> 
> OK, I LOLed.
> 
>>   At least you didn't type gigantic hex listings, like me...
> 
> Remember the magazines with the machine-readable barcode down the edges of
> program listings?  I never got that to work.
 
Yes! I remember those.

Ever had something "saved" to an audio cassette, and you had to PLAY it back 
to the computer? And if it played too softly or loudly it would be 
scrambled?

I had games and stuff that used to take ten minutes to load this way. 
Sometimes at 8 minutes it would fade just a little bit and you had to start 
all over. 

Granted this was in the early days even for the Apple ][ - later when you 
could get the disc drives (floppy discs) for it, it was much better. 

I remember doubling them (they held 120KB if I remember right) by turning a 
store-bought one over, and cutting another write-protect notch at the 
opposite side, so I could write on the "backside" of the disc, storing 240KB 
(wow, that's a LOT!) on one disc.

The "backside" wasn't too reliable though. Mind you, neither was the "front" 
of those discs. :)
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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