Anthony Horton1d 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 threadmyrmepropagandist23h 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

Show threadAMS
@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.
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Show threadAMS12h ago

@futurebird @spacelizard nifty things like add parallel

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