POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart Server Time
8 Oct 2024 20:53:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart  
From: Darren New
Date: 16 Nov 2009 19:27:06
Message: <4b01edda$1@news.povray.org>
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> 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?

Ah yes!  You get brinky-brinks on TRS-80 when tape is right! :-)

> 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.

That too.

I remember when Myst came out on CD too and thought "Well, so much for 
pirating games. You've got like 20x the size of a hard drive on this thing, 
you could never copy it." :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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