Thread: Retro Computing
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Old 05-13-2009, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by valentine View Post
and the nicest fun part in the early c64 days was typing 4 to 10 pages of hex value listings from a magazine into your machine.
Thank god we later on had checksums.
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Originally Posted by andyvand View Post
yeah and later on making it into a binary and storing to tape or disk
heh! tapes were hours of fun!

esp when they'd go bad and look like spaghetti giving a ton of errors

nice to see other members in the 30+ years of age range

Most people are so lazy, they don't even exercise good judgement!

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Last edited by rocksteady; 05-13-2009 at 05:26 PM.
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