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From: toth@tellabs.com (Joseph G. Toth Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: cassette tapes (Was - Re: Dos 3.3 file copier needed)
Summary: Lets go wwaaaaaaayyy back
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Date: 14 May 91 12:35:27 GMT
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In article <15727@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
[stuff on DOS3.3 and FID deleted]
> 	Oh, you say there are people who started using the computer after
> ProDOS was invented?
> 
> 	You younguns really have it easy... When I was little, we 
> had to boot DOS 3.3 off of piddly little 140K disks.. in the snow..
> in our bare feet... Oh.. ugg.. that's a different story...
> 
> 	heh heh hehh..
> 
> (Now someone's going to reply and talk about using punch cards, huh??)

God no...

Bu you must be somewhat of a teenster then.

Owners of original Apples ][ and ][+ might (probably) have saved
programs to and loaded programs from standard cassette tape recorders.
Upgrading from that to those 'piddly little 140k disks' was a major
step foreward.

Punch cards? Only Big Blue would be so archaic (I do believe that there
was one available for use on am original PC [ Pile of C*$#  ;^) ]
'Course maybe they wanted it to stand for 'Punched Card machine'.
But no computer user in their right mind is that crazy (I hope).



g

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