Mastodawn

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

21.3%

I've listened to music on cassette tape

25%

I've recorded music to cassette tape

26.1%

I've loaded software from cassette tape

15.8%

I've written software to cassette tape

10.8%

Poll ended at Mar 26 at 3:17am.

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myrmepropagandist 4d ago

@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

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myrmepropagandist

@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.