@Pat_Walrond

Crazy, right? :)

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@TheAbbotTrithemius Yup! AND I had a party to celebrate! hahaha
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@Pat_Walrond @TheAbbotTrithemius

I remember my first Gigabyte HD and I though I was in fat city!

@feloneouscat @TheAbbotTrithemius @Pat_Walrond Yeah that OMG I'll never run out of space now feeling doesn't last long.

@Lucky188 @feloneouscat @TheAbbotTrithemius Remember Stacker? My first 10 MB drive and I discovered Stacker... was boasting to the world I had a 20 MB... lol.

Remember too what doorstops they were? They ought properly to have been classified as offensive weapons😂 😂

@Pat_Walrond @feloneouscat First HD I bought was a Seagate Wren 20MB and cost me just under $900. (First and most expensive)

@Lucky188 @Pat_Walrond @feloneouscat Now I can't remember if my first hard drive was 20MB or 40MB. Whatever it was, not having to change floppy disks all the time changed my whole life!

My parents gave me that and a monochrome VGA monitor (with a graphics card) for Christmas one year. It was quite the gift!

A while back I was reflecting on the difference in physical size between the typical 20MB hard-drive of the early 90s and a 128GB micro-SD card.

@sumpnlikefaith @feloneouscat @Pat_Walrond Floppies, they made life so easy after using a cassette tape drive for so long.🤣

@Lucky188 @feloneouscat @Pat_Walrond Oh, yeah, my uncle had an old Atari with a tape drive. That was painful!

So many times I'd pull a tape out, cue it up, and wait for the game to load and realise that I'd accidentally loaded one I had no intention of playing. I'd play it anyway because I'd invested so much time in loading it, and didn't want my whole day to be spent just loading games.

@sumpnlikefaith @Pat_Walrond @feloneouscat Yeah helped if had a tape counter on the tape player and wrote counter numbers on cassette, but only worked if rewound reset counter and FF'd to what you wanted with the hope it would load in less than 3 tries.

1/2 C64 Cassette
@sumpnlikefaith 🤣 🤣 Been there, done that with my C64... first one was given to me by the brother of a work colleague... he got a new one and kept his drive, so at first I had no storage anything... he would bring over his drive and load Elite on it, and I couldn't turn it off because then I'd have to wait for him to come over and load it again. Then I got a cassette tape, and you could start loading, go and have dinner and a shower and come back.

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2/2 C64 Cassette

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I used to buy every C64 magazine I could get my hands on and type out a lot of those games, basic and machine.... oh the bliss of sitting typing out a zillion lines of 00 FF F7. Fortunately I got my hands on one of those machine code checker progs.

And of course the other thing was to remember to take note of where you started to record on the cassette, otherwise God help you trying to find where the prog started...
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@Lucky188 @Pat_Walrond

I prefer Samsung. And yeah, they are close. Just not close enough. I’m hoping after the New Year there will be sales.

I’m hoping.