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How old school cassette tape drives worked

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David Murray explains how 1970s and 1980s home computers used standard audio cassette tapes to store and load digital data.

Support this channel on Patreon: patreon.com/8BitGuy1 Thanks go out to my guest stars: Lazy Game Reviews youtube.com/user/phreakindee Modern Vintage Gamer youtube.com/user/jimako123 Classic Gaming Quarterly youtube.com/user/CGQuarterly The Obsolete Geek youtube.com/user/robivy64 In this episode we take an in depth look at what life was like using cassette drives for storage on computers during the 1970's and 1980's.

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The C64 used a magnetic tape audio cassette( link to this video to store it's program. The tapes could be played as weird audio on a regular tape player. You could also copy that audio then load it back into the computer. So these people just copied the sound onto the record groves, then you could record it back to tape and load it into the computer. Tape was common until the late 80's when diskettes became more common. Tape was common for backing up hard drives through the early 2000s and is still used in some data center applications.
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