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Yes though the failure rate of actually trying to read it later when you need it is quite high in my experience.
This person had a C64
Close. First tape experience was a TRS-80. Later moved on to DATs on various Unix boxes, AIX, Solaris, Linux. I did own an Amiga but it had a 3.5" disk and even a 20mb hdd! During the c64 era I was on Apple II, also floppies.
Mine was an acorn nothing like coming back from waiting for a last ninja to load with a nice read error instead
Not to mention you had to type the whole freaking program in line by line from a book where the program was written out over 10 pages, then wait 2 hours for it to load from tape and if you made a single mistake you had to type the whole damn thing in again.
At least we have some proper old man stories we have to tell our kids about how hard we had it.