For real? My tweaking days ended when floppy came out for the C64.
Maybe the C64 datasette never got the upgrade?
hessenjunge
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A flathead is still a screwdriver, is it not?
It was a Philips screw IIRC. You can also use a flathead screwdriver on them but you shouldn’t IMHO.
Dude would just walk up to the tape drive, masterfully tweak the screw for a second, and it'd work.
Me too! For some reason I was the only guy in school who could do that. Fun times. 😊
Because I had a floppy drive and that's what I obviously preferred to use.
In the beginning these were not available. Also I remember them costing the same as the C64 itself. As soon as I could afford one I got one obviously.
I just another item that could a generational riddle: the hole-punch that made your one-sided floppy two-sided.
Were you also there when the floppy replaced the datasette? 😊
The screwdriver is not for the tape. It’s for adjusting the audio head so it can pick up the data on the tape.
When someone gave you a tape with some nice games on it there was a near 100% chance you needed to adjust your datasette to read them.
I respect your position but have to disagree.
Trump, Musk ,and probably most of their circle come from families that have a strong inclination towards psychopathy. While there surely are ecological causes for this the probability of genetic causes supporting this are high.
Capitalism and before that feudalism has positively selected psychopaths for centuries. It’s time we stopped breeding people incapable of empathy.