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Thanks greens, I thought I might have been posting that too soon, my bad for jumping the gun. I look forward to your research of the site and scoping out what is needed and doable.
Good luck! :thmbup:
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Thanks greens, I thought I might have been posting that too soon, my bad for jumping the gun. I look forward to your research of the site and scoping out what is needed and doable.
Good luck! :thmbup:
Brychanus
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Tim, as a relatively recent member I just wanted to give you a heartfelt THANK YOU for all your time and service. This is IMO the most valuable single disc golf resource on the internet in many ways.
I hope DGCR stays strong and you get some time for R&R and plenty of disclyfe!
I hope DGCR stays strong and you get some time for R&R and plenty of disclyfe!
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Well I totally missed this thread, not that I use the forums that much.
Thanks Tim for what you have done with this site, As of right now it is still the BEST review site and best way to keep track of courses played.
I may have to now build a backup of my list, this is my master list now as I can't find the one I made years ago (probably on an old floppy drive)
Thanks Tim for what you have done with this site, As of right now it is still the BEST review site and best way to keep track of courses played.
I may have to now build a backup of my list, this is my master list now as I can't find the one I made years ago (probably on an old floppy drive)
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Three and a half or five and a quarter...?
Or (Gasp!) 8"?
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Never heard of an eight inch floppy disc...
Skamanda
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8" floppy was pre-Commodore era. NeXt Cubes, later day mainframes, and the like...
Now, with the recent resurgence of cassette players for music, we should take a page from the Commodore Pet, and use those for data again!
Now, with the recent resurgence of cassette players for music, we should take a page from the Commodore Pet, and use those for data again!
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We had an Atari 400 when I was a kid. Most games were on cartridges, but there was one (Juggles' Rainbow; it sucked) that was on what appeared to be a regular audio cassette. We had a separate tape reader/player just for that one sh!tty game.
Never talked to anyone else that had that system. Lots of people had the 2600, 400 not so much.
Never talked to anyone else that had that system. Lots of people had the 2600, 400 not so much.
God no! 8 tracks made sense, CD's sure, cassettes should continue to burn in obscurity. It's the hipsters again isn't it?
I always figured DGCR was off a C64 / Amiga mainframe...
jakebake91
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They make pills to fix an 8" floppy.....oh wait. You said "disc". My brain might have misheard
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They make pills to fix an 8" floppy.....oh wait. You said "disc". My brain might have misheard
I knew someone would go there...
Some posters are predictable...
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8" floppy is just bragging.
Yeah, but you can't expect me not to swing at a hanging curveball.
Yeah, but you can't expect me not to swing at a hanging curveball.
I had an Atari 800XL after the 1983 video game crash made everything cheaper, got it for like $100 if memory serves. It's still in a box in the basement and worked the last time I hooked it up...in 1999. I wonder if the floppy drive still works? I thought about getting it out a few years ago but discovered I don't have an old enough TV in the house for the hookup thingy in the back. My favorite games were Racing Destruction Set (an early EA Sports game on floppy disk!) and the Donkey Kong cartridge was very good, a little better than the ColecoVision version even.
I knew a family back in the early '80s who had the membrane keyboard Atari computer with the cassette drive. That's the 400, right? Got to play with it once during a visit.
The very first computer I remember seeing was an early TRS-80 using an actual reel to reel tape drive for its I/O device! 1980, on a wheeled cart, brought into my 2nd grade classroom. It barely worked. I remember the teachers having a very hard time getting a simple math facts program going. It probably cost the school district a fortune. We're talking rural northern Indiana here, not a big city school by any stretch. Around 1 in 8 students were Amish there and left after 8th grade to start working.
This laptop I'm using now is quite a jump from that 1980 machine...
lol wut
I would not have survived driving around the 80's without my cassette tapes in my Pioneer tape player - detachable faceplate and all. Bad enough I had to drive a crappy 84 Escort but at least I had some decent tunes cause the radio stations sucked.
The only virtue of 8 tracks was that you could stack them without putting them in cases first.
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That sounds like the 400. Mine had the membrane keyboard in the same unit as the cpu and the cartridge reader. Tape cassette drive was external. '83 sounds about right for when we would have gotten it. Miner 2049er was far and away the best game we had.
Hey man... 78 Malibu and a pull out Clarion deck. With 15 or so mixed/ dubbed tapes in the car. It was the only way to road trip!!! I have some fond memories but whoever is trying to bring back cassettes and walkmans needs to stop. The batteries on a walkman wore out after about 1.5 hrs, tapes got eaten and chewed. It sucks even more when it's a videogame for your Atari 2600 or 400 whatever.
I was specifically thinking car audio (factory stereos) when I suggested I could see the use of 8 tracks.
Ahh yes...that I agree with lol
Not sure if anyone else did this but I didn't always have enough $ to buy a full album so I did the 45 thing and put all the a-side tracks on the longest blank cassettes I could find. Seem to remember Radio Shack having Memorex or some-such that lasted the longest. I'd record those 45's to a tape and that was my "mix" tape. Parents had a super nice record player and cassette player so that seemed to make sense at the time. Man...whatta PITA that was.
Apologies for subjecting everyone to my lengthy trip down memory lane...
Dcinmd
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We only had the home version pong back then. You could play either tennis or hockey
