I have an old lap top that my father gave me. It doesn't have a hard drive at all in it. It only reads off of floppy disks. That's it no storage at all. Amazing the speed at which things progress.
Songs4Life Messages: 36 Registered: August 2010 Location: Somewhere between the twe...
Baron
My very first pc used a cassette tape drive as a storage device. It was powered by a 6502 microprocessor and had 8 Kb ram upgradeable to a massive 16 Kb *gasp.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18791 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
The little 1802 computer was a homebrew that I assembled on a perf board with point-to-point wiring. Looks like spaghetti on the underside, just a bunch of red wires. I still have it, and the 6502 system too (Synertek Sym-I, much like the Kim-I, precursor to the Apple I and II), and both computers still work. Sometimes I get them out and turn them on, just for old times sake.
Songs4Life Messages: 36 Registered: August 2010 Location: Somewhere between the twe...
Baron
I wish I could have saved mine but I moved house too often and many things got lost or broken in transit. I can still remember the peep peep peep sound of the data being loaded into the pc from the cassette drive. That's a type of digital sound alright.
I had a really old Amstrad computer, all of my data was saved on to a cassette tape. I used quite a few tapes writing a story, wish I'd kept the tapes now.
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