Thread: I've been musing about tablets, the Fire and computers
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Old 09-15-2012, 01:51 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by sirmaru View Post
How about those Stringy Floppies for the TRS-80? It saved 40K of data up from the mere 16K on a regular sound cassette. There were no floppy discs back in 1979.
I remember those days. I had a Model I with a whopping 4KB of RAM. Nothing was more frustrating that trying to save/load software on cassette tapes with an improper volume level. When I upgraded the RAM to 16KB and the ROM chip to Level II Basic, I thought I was a top dog.

Dang I'm old.
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