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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And Programs/Games came on Casettes :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just in case, no it's not a joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

well yeah and because you don't want to type the listing down all over again, you save it onto tape.