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Oct 7, 2011
I remember 8" and 16" discs, and also I remember a "computer" with a screen with the same screen layout as an A4, and the word-processing program in the BIOS..

Side note; I also remember writing ROMs by using ten switches. (one resetted the memory address-count, 8 contained the data you wanted to write, the last one wrote the data to the memory at the current address, and increased the address by one. (By using this I made a "intersection traffic light controller program" for two intersections which were in sequence (and buttons for crossings, and sensors for cars) as a project, which I later showed my teacher.. I kinda wish that I had built a "model" of the intersection and put the leds and sensors in.. but I was satisfied with just getting my light-scheme functioning okay and my project approved)
 
 
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Jul 1, 2011
That's nothing. I got a little magnet and had to set the programcode for an os bit by bit on floppy disks by myself.
 
 
Jun 22, 2011
@leibnix: "We pirated c64 games using loudspeaker and microphone before we got dual cassette players."

Yeah, and YOUR piracy destroyed the games industry, just like they said it would. Which is why there is no computer games industry now.

(Except for that big multi-billion dollar one, of course.)

(But home taping DID destroy the music industry. A little bit. Perhaps. Or perhaps not.)
 
 
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Dec 22, 2010
That's nothing. Back to engineering school, we were typing code on perforated cardboards with a keypunch machine. We had to punch the code during the night because during the day there was a waiting line of students for the keypunch machine.
 
 
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Dec 20, 2010
That's nothing. We pirated c64 games using loudspeaker and microphone before we got dual casette players.
 
 
 
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