Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
realitista@lemm.ee 5 months agoYes though the failure rate of actually trying to read it later when you need it is quite high in my experience.
Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
realitista@lemm.ee 5 months agoYes though the failure rate of actually trying to read it later when you need it is quite high in my experience.
sirico@feddit.uk 5 months ago
This person had a C64
realitista@lemm.ee 5 months ago
First tape experience was a TRS-80. Later moved on to DATS on various Unix boxes, AIX, Solaris, Linux.
sirico@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Mine was an acorn nothing like coming back from waiting for a last ninja to load with a nice read error instead
realitista@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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.