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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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I assume it was because they used ordinary tape recorders, that people would otherwise use as dictaphones or to play music. I guess there wasn't a way to transfer the data silently because the technology was designed to play sound? We had to wait for the floppy disk for silent-ish loading. Ish because they click-clacked a lot, but that was moving parts rather than the code itself.
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