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To: Olog-hai

Don’t recall who made it, but remember using a computer at work in the late 1980s, early ‘90s that used a cassette tape as a hard drive.


3 posted on 11/07/2015 8:03:53 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Inyo-Mono
The Timex Sinclar 1000 with a whopping 1KB of RAM came out in the early 80's and used a cassette tape for data storage.


5 posted on 11/07/2015 8:10:18 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Inyo-Mono

In the late 60’s I worked for Siliconix. We had a computer that we used punch cards and paper tapes in. Size of a large refridgerator. Seems 100 years ago.


7 posted on 11/07/2015 8:11:50 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Commodore made computers that used cassette storage, until they made the Amiga..............then they were gone.


10 posted on 11/07/2015 8:15:41 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Inyo-Mono

That would be the Timex Sinclare Z80. I put one together as a kit from mail order. You could expand the memory to a whopping 16K with a rather expensive memory upgrade.


29 posted on 11/07/2015 10:28:54 PM PST by Desron13
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