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Re: Kids react to old computers

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In article <lpg1ce$vf6$1@dont-email.me>, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
> At 08 Jul 2014 00:17:25 +0000 Lewis wrote:
> > Okay, so one time? In band camp? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}
> me.com> was all, like: 
> >  -->     Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:04:28 -0700 <2014070714042810404-
> savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>
> > > On 2014-07-07 13:06:19 +0000, Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> said:
> > >> In article <290520140858229166%YourName@YourISP.com>,
> > >>  Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >>> The Atari TOS was awful for a supposedly
> > >>> superior machine, it was barely better than using the C64 GUI with a
> > >>> joystick, which was horrible enough.
> > >> 
> > >> I had a friend with a C64 and it took 45 minutes to load Donkey Kong.
> > 
> > > It sounds as if he was using the data cassette. Why didn't he have
> the 
> > > Donkey Kong ROM?
> > > I remember when they first came out with a dual floppy drive for the 
> > > C64, that changed the C64 I/O speed conciderably.
> > 
> > Only in comparison to the data cassette. The C64 disk was the slowest
> > floppy disk drive I ever used, even slower than the floppy disk for the
> > Atari 800.
> 
> The C64's disk drive was slower than other computer's cassette drives!
> 
> Commodore's cassette drive ran at a horrific 50 baud, and the disk drive
> was 300. As a comparison, the TRS-80 cassette drive was 1500 baud, IIRC.
> 
> We used to joke we could type the BASIC programs from magazines into a
> C64 almost as fast as we could load them from tape.

Most people were simply more patient back then ... these days most
people can't even be bothered waiting a minute or two for their
computer to boot, so leave it on 24-7.   :-\

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Re: Kids react to old computers Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2014-07-07 09:06 -0400
  Re: Kids react to old computers Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-07-07 14:04 -0700
    Re: Kids react to old computers Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-08 00:17 +0000
      Re: Kids react to old computers Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2014-07-08 14:36 -0600
        Re: Kids react to old computers Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-09 01:12 +0000
          Re: Kids react to old computers JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-07-08 21:22 -0400
            Re: Kids react to old computers Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-09 13:40 +1200
              Re: Kids react to old computers Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2014-07-09 15:13 -0600
                Re: Kids react to old computers Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-10 09:34 +1200
            Re: Kids react to old computers Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2014-07-09 08:03 -0600
              Re: Kids react to old computers Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-10 09:18 +1200
        Re: Kids react to old computers Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-09 13:42 +1200
    Re: Kids react to old computers Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2014-07-07 22:43 -0400
  Re: Kids react to old computers Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-08 09:17 +1200
    Re: Kids react to old computers Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2014-07-07 22:44 -0400
      Re: Kids react to old computers "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 13:59 +1000
      Re: Kids react to old computers Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-08 16:10 +1200

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