[olug] OT: But funny

[Jay Swackhamer]

My Timex Sinclair used a regular cassette recorder through the  
audio/headphone jack. Imagine the frustration when you find your saved  
programs were recorded over by someone's need for Michael Jackson......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81

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Quoting Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org>:

> Hey, I had one of these and it was GREAT.  My Dad was too cheap to   
> buy me the $15 cartridge game BUT bought me a book with 15 programs   
> in it for $15 that I had to type in......I was 8.  @ 8yo, I was   
> typing in code and troubleshooting my poor typing skills to play a   
> game.  He did go buy one of these for me to save my stuff off to.    
> It was so nice!
>
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>>>> "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> 7/22/2010 >>>
> http://www.geekvintage.com/images/commodore-64-1530-datasette.jpg
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Kevin D. Snodgrass
>> <kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>> > --- On Thu, 7/22/10, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Actually...
>> > >
>> > > I wonder how many kids these days know what even a 3.5"
>> > > floppy looks like.
>> >
>> > Appearently not you.  That is a 5.25" floppy disk.
>> >
>> > Kevin D. Snodgrass
>> >
>> >
>> Oh har har :P
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