(11-19-2022, 12:05 AM)PhilOfPerth Wrote: When I think back to tape-loading days, when just loading the programme to be used could take up to 10 minutes, I realize how far we've (you've) come.Someone who might know something about 8-track tapes! Those looked cool but took too long before the "click" and then waiting another several seconds before the music came out again LOL.
Also having to use "SKIPF" on the Color Computer 2, that neither saved nor loaded... what an useless statement! How about the number of I/O errors I suffered trying to load a program from cassette? If a program could be gotten in five minutes or less it was great, except such a program was a few lines long. I used a word processor that could save data files to cassette but it did "too many" yelps for my taste. It was easy however to recover some data if not all of it.
There was more. A "POKE" was given away for Color Computer 3 that made things run about twice as fast. However if the programmer forgot to "disable" that trick then saved a 1000-line program to cassette, then well... that's why the floppy drive was introduced for that computer.