Anthony Horton18h ago
Inspired by a CD burning indirect age verification poll I saw this morning let's push things a little further back with a poll about cassette tape.
I don't know what a cassette tape is
I do know what a cassette tape is
I've listened to music on cassette tape
I've recorded music to cassette tape
I've loaded software from cassette tape
I've written software to cassette tape
Poll ends at .
Show threadAnthony Horton
To clarify, I'm specifically asking about analogue Compact Cassette audio tape here. DAT/DSS, etc., don't count.
Mar 23 at 3:21amWeb
Show threadaburka 🫣18h ago
@spacelizard I have made many a tape archive file but never actually written one to a tape
Show threadKen Milmore8h ago
@aburka @spacelizard I doubt if many other people have either. The tar format was not used with analogue compact cassettes, which were the storage format of choice for cheap '80s 8-bit microcomputers. I bet someone on here will know of an exception though!
Show threadaburka 🫣1h ago
@kbm0 @spacelizard I dimly remember the first family computer (mid 90s) having some kind of tape drive for backups
Show threadKen Milmore1h ago
@aburka @spacelizard It may have been a QIC drive or similar that worked over the PC floppy disc interface. They didn't use the analogue compact cassettes though, they were more a like a budget LTO drive.
Show thread🤯Matera the Mad🤯7h ago

@spacelizard
Yep. Back in the early '80s, a friend gave me a bitty toy computer that I could plug into a regular tape recorder - and a black-and-white TV -and lo! I learned to program...within 1k.

I miss it.