For the last few years, I’ve been researching and imaging other people’s old disks — but recently someone turned the tables and salvaged one of mine!
Let me tell you the story.
Front of an old 5.25″ floppy disk labeled “OASIS-BACKUP”.
Side 1 of an old cassette tape I used to store programs for my Atari 8-bit computers.
Last weekend, I was rummaging through my old Atari ST disks when I came across something I hadn’t noticed in 30 years: A cassette tape for my Atari 8-bit.
As I have recounted before, I used hand-me-down Atari 800s, a 130XE, a 410 program recorder, and lots of other equipment and disks from family members when I was a kid before later graduating to the 16-bit ST series. Alas, I got rid of most of it when I was in college.
But here was this little tape … perhaps my only tangible link to my old Atari 8-bit equipment.
Each side of the tape was only 10 minutes long. What was on it?
Scene from the ATASCII animation “Help From A Friend.”
You know a computer technique is old school when it was considered old-fashioned in 1985.