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Storage medium used with an Atari 800XL a little over 40 years ago.

P.S. From the rewrites of the names and read locations, you can guess how laborious it was to manage file saving.

Generative artist since the 1980s, working with more or less living bits and misleading perceptions: https://antoniobelluscio.net

That’s when I started programming. You have no idea the constant trail and error of saving and loading.

Producer / Game Designer - Marvel Heroes, Lord of the Rings, MTG Arena (Former EA, Zynga, WoTC)

The loading times were then so long that some tapes included a music track on one of the two audio channels. I remember often hearing the first twenty minutes of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons during the loading of, I think, SpeedCalc.

I have memories of a 20 min load time for CRUSH CRUMBLE CHOMP and a misload due to the tape not being queued right was painful. But it was cutting edge gaming and fun.

Indeed, it was a period in which nothing was taken for granted, and there was much yet to be invented.