• @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    610 months ago

    OMG that reminded me of my best friend’s Commodore 20 - which had no disk drive, so to play a game you had to manually type in the BASIC code for it each time before playing.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      I remember having a text to speech program on my windows 98(?) PC that required me to type a long string of stuff into the command prompt. We had it written on an index card and I remember it taking forever to type in. Between starting up the computer, typing in the code, and having it actually load if typed correctly the first time, it was nearly a 30 minute endeavor just to laugh at a computer voice say “poopy butthole herpes”.

    • @xenoclast
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      210 months ago

      Vic20. It was a big deal if you had a cassette player to record your programs on

    • @Jarix
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      110 months ago

      Thata kind of awesome

    • @shalafi
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      110 months ago

      That was my first computer. I see no point in buying one if you can’t even have a tape deck.