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Old 24th April 2019, 11:06 AM
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My best mate in Primary School had a Commodore 64!
Used to take about half an hour to load anything from it's tape drive
Yep, the tape drive was sloooow, not to mention unreliable. I used a Commodore tape deck with my VIC to save the programs I had written on. Often I'd spend hours writing thousands of lines of code, only to find it wouldn't reload from the tape the next day. Fortunately I would usually have a 'backup' in the form of a dot-matrix print-out (on continuous paper, with the tear-off punched holes each side), so *all* I had to do was retype it

I've actually still got my VIC20. I must dig it out someday and see if it still works. It must be over 30 years since it was last switched on.
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