[sanjayparekh]

I was 7 and got a TI-99/4A. I rocked it out by saving and restoring programs to cassette tape. You read that right, cassette tape.

[davidmathers]

Cassette tape was also the format of choice for my Atari 400, but I had the computer for a year before I got the tape drive. So for a year I had to retype my BASIC programs into the 16k of RAM every time the computer got turned off. On the membrane "keyboard".

Cue Monty Python sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

I remember wishing I had an Atari 800, which had 64k of RAM and a real keyboard!

[MoeDrippins]

My 400 DID have 64k and a real keyboard (both add-ons).

I was 16, but that was 1982. No intertubes. No printer. No RS-232. Cassette tapes.

[hotpockets]

Me too. I loved playing parsec on that bad boy.

[trevelyan]

Parsec rocked. Tunnels of Doom was also fantastic. The disk drive made the sound of a small jet engine.