Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030

• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First tape experience was a TRS-80. Later moved on to DATS on various Unix boxes, AIX, Solaris, Linux.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mine was an acorn nothing like coming back from waiting for a last ninja to load with a nice read error instead

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    • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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