Uhh, always? Never had a failure, still works 35 years later... Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:31 PM, fmiser via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Curt wrote:
> ... my first computer, the TI99/4A. ...I casually mentioned that > my first computer had 16KB of RAM and we saved programs to audio > tape. ... The younger folks didn't believe you could save > programs to audio tape so we had a learning moment... Sure! You could _save_ the program to audio tape - but how often were you able to _load_ from audio tape? In that respect, the TI was pretty weak. We had better luck with reel-to-reel at higher tape speeds than with cassette, but it was still not very dependable. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
