You had it easy.
I used to load programs from audio cassettes with my ZX81.
I was a power user though, I had a 16k RAM pack.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David
> Douthitt
> Sent: 17 July 2001 11:01
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!
> 
> 
> Matthew Schalit wrote:
> > 
> > Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > >
> > > At 08:37 AM 7/13/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hilton Travis wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > Are those the 8" floppy disks?
> > > >
> > > >I think the 8" floppy disks never held more than 250KB 
> at most, anyway.
> > >
> > > Actually, Jeff, us old timers remember them growing to 
> the *huge* (at the
> > > time, anyway) capacity of 1.2 MB. I ran my first real 
> CP/M compiler (Digital
> > > Research Pascal, I think) on a dual-8 system.
> 
> > Ah yes, the joy of loading Wordstar on a CP/M off of an 8"
> > diskette and fighting through that revolutionary user
> > interface of theirs.
> 
> I remember running Wordstar on Apple II CP/M - or compiling with Turbo
> Pascal or Small-C.  In fact, I put that Apple II CP/M machine on the
> "Internet" (look up deety.uucp in the UUCP maps....)
> 
> Unlike many, I liked CP/M - still do - I really do miss ZCPR3 (a later
> enhanced CP/M lookalike for Z80s).
> 
> But that machine never got used, and it was not doing me any good
> lugging it around (sigh).
> 
> I remember when the Apple II 3.5" disk drives came out - as Apple II
> users, we went from 140k to 800k overnight.  Paid $400 for one of
> those...
> 
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