A Day Worth Recording

By Cheeseminer

Raider of the Loft's Ark

As mentioned a couple of days ago I'm rummaging through the loft digging out mine and Dad's antique computers and software.

I came across this in the crates today, along with a few other titles which might get blipped as I continue to sort.

For those born into the download age, this program comes on an audio tape cassette which you played in a conventional cassette player, with the computer listening to the tones over the headphone jack.

Audio tones represented the 1's and 0's of the software. Getting the volume just right for a successful load was a non-trivial process.

The copyright date on this is 1982 - almost a decade before Tim Berners-Lee's Wibbly Wobbly Web went public (in 1991).

Different times.

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The blip 'location' is Market Hill, Cambridge - their address at the time.

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