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For questions regarding data storage on magnetic tape in a cassette tape format.

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Cassette tape storage formats

The simple reason is that interoperability was not a primary drive for this kind of storage, especially at the consumer level. Honestly, what's the point of reading a Commodore cassette on an Atari fo …
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Developing an application in the era of cassette tapes (audio-tapes)

Obviously, you can just switch tapes as you go, but systems that used cassette tapes for storage weren't really viable for collaborative development. Simply because with a cassette tape, you had "wha …
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Definitive list of music bands/groups that included computer programs on their analogue audi...

Isao Tomita encoded messages in the TARBEL (actually Tarbell) cassette format on his album "The Bermuda Triangle" from 1979.
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Did computer games for Commodore 64 really take "25 minutes" to load "if everything went alr...

Telengard was the one that did this for us. We used to load Telegard on Fridays, and leave the machine powered on all weekend. This game sucked up every byte of RAM.
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