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backscatter712

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14. My first computer was an Atari 400.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:27 PM

Aug 2016

Started off with a cassette drive. Yes, programs loaded off of cassette tapes. Took 15 minutes for a 32 kilobyte program, and often errored out if the tape was screwy.

Later, we upgraded to a floppy disk drive. 5 1/4 inch floppies that were actually floppy. But quite the luxury when compared to the tapes.

That Atari did have some awesome games. I still have it in a closet.

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