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To: MDspinboyredux

A Trash-80! My best friend Kira had one of those. Her cassette drive was on a card table, and we had to enter and exit the room VERY carefully, because if a program was loading and we bumped the card table, the cassette would skip the program and we'd have to rewind and start over.


151 posted on 07/15/2004 9:39:52 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I'm thinkin' of a master plan . . .)
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To: Xenalyte

Heh heh, they were known for that.

Also, if I recall correctly the cassettes were only good for several loadings. Then the quality of the cassettes degraded to a point where you'd get loading errors.

And forget about graphics. All you got were a bunch of simple ASCII characters.


165 posted on 07/15/2004 9:53:33 AM PDT by MDspinboyredux
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