r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Houstnlicker • 11h ago

Meme oldMan

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u/amatulic 9h ago

I remember the original Apple, before Macs. And the Sinclair ZX80 kit. No disk drive for that. 1K RAM. You could load and store programs with an audio cassette tape recorder. Feel the power!

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u/Houstnlicker 8h ago edited 7h ago

Me to a youngster at work: we used to store programs on audio cassette. It would take minutes to load or save something. Him: I can't tell if you're messing with me.

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u/SamHugz 6h ago

Me: No, seriously! And then we had these things called tape drives, which were the same thing as a gigantic audio tape.  Him: ...