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Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by rodgerd on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:04PM (#20537939)
Old is remembering when storage was audiocassettes.
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Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by erik_seaberg on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:22PM (#20538053)
First you had to type pages of hex from a magazine, then you could try to record it onto a cassette.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program

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Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by rodgerd on Saturday July 27, 2019 @06:16PM (#20544593)
Yep. I remember the joys of Usborne's programming books, where you'd have variants of the same program for the different flavors of home computer.
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