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 .

@spacelizard

I feel like I need to say that I have written and loaded software on tapes, but only as a "vintage computing" activity with my trusty TRS 80 which I bring in to scare my students from time to time "this is what laptops used to be like" they love it and are fascinated... or terrified, hard to say their eyes are very big the whole time.

But it's not really of my time. I did grow up listening to rock and roll on cassette tapes however, in Ohio no less behind a 7/11

@futurebird @spacelizard We had a program on national radio that would broadcast software to be recorded on casette tape and to be used on your home computer. It used a universal BASIC called BASICODE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE
BASICODE - Wikipedia

@futurebird @spacelizard I go back even further I’ve written and loaded programs on/from a paper tape roll! (PDP-8E BASIC)

@spacelizard

The little screen had menu options on it with numbers and one of them tried to press the screen... to be fair touch screens did exist when this was made... but they looked like they were covered in horrible plastic wrap.

@futurebird @spacelizard the first programming I did was on a TRS (trash) 80 with a cassette drive.

@futurebird @spacelizard

this is baller teaching right here.

@futurebird @spacelizard I typed in programs from magazines for my Vic 20 and C64 back in the day and saved to tape drive. I do not miss it.
@futurebird @spacelizard I have provided students with HP-42s programs for a few things while TAing because I used them for solving live problems on the board/chat. They were mostly horrified.

@futurebird @spacelizard nifty things like add parallel

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