Intern Discussion episode 1
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I knew about the floppy but didn't know about cassette tapes. Really showing my age here.what about you guys?
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I knew about them and in the Dominican Republic we still used cassette up to the early 2000s
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@dbeato That's pretty cool to actually work with that technology. I'm kind of jealous!
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@mary said in Intern Discussion episode 1:
@dbeato That's pretty cool to actually work with that technology. I'm kind of jealous!
I didn't like it though, nothing like breaking a cassette...
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@mary said in Intern Discussion episode 1:
I knew about the floppy but didn't know about cassette tapes. Really showing my age here.what about you guys?
My first computer interactions were with a CBM PET and it ran off of cassettes. We saw cassette drives and media in stores and stuff when I was little. They were the cheap option for many years.
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@dbeato said in Intern Discussion episode 1:
@mary said in Intern Discussion episode 1:
@dbeato That's pretty cool to actually work with that technology. I'm kind of jealous!
I didn't like it though, nothing like breaking a cassette...
And they are so slow. You really don't know slow until you use an audio cassette for data storage. They actually recorded audio and played it back, and it is obviously linear. So image the worst, old floppy ever, now imagine that you couldn't use a table of contents but had to do everything at half speed, and sequentially! What might take three minutes with an old floppy could be 30 minutes with a cassette!
