• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    OMG that reminded me of my best friend’s Commodore 20 - which had no disk drive, so to play a game you had to manually type in the BASIC code for it each time before playing.

    • IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I remember having a text to speech program on my windows 98(?) PC that required me to type a long string of stuff into the command prompt. We had it written on an index card and I remember it taking forever to type in. Between starting up the computer, typing in the code, and having it actually load if typed correctly the first time, it was nearly a 30 minute endeavor just to laugh at a computer voice say “poopy butthole herpes”.

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      8 months ago

      That was my first computer. I see no point in buying one if you can’t even have a tape deck.