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  • Tapes (cassettes) did everything discs do today. Mostly storing programs for home computers. I remember using them with my Commodore 64. They were prone to spitting out overheated tape loops. So when the floppies came out, so long tapes unless they had Def Leppard on them.

  • @manticore391 You had a 64 ?!?! LUCKY !! I could only get a Vic 20 and it crashed.

  • thumbs up if you noticed that the map in the backround was upside-down

  • @Yowelsepti411

    They are probably from Australia, lol.

  • @Yowelsepti411 the map is not upside down. we have the same map in my history class. its saying look at different perspectives. is austrailia really on bottom

  • @Yowelsepti411

    Nope, they just glued everything on the ceiling, and flipped the video upside-down.

  • @Yowelsepti411 its not

  • sale!

  • what are the two top comments guys whining about? making fun of what did i miss something? lol must be apple sheeples

  • 666 dollars?!?! That's stupid.

  • @MoulderSDK Devil's work, it is!

  • I'm only 30 and I grew up with 80s computers such as Spectrum, Amstrad, and Commodore which had tape decks for saving programmes. Still have the old Amstrad CPC-464 in the loft as it happens. Might have to dust off some of those cassettes some time and play a few games =]

  • ...

  • WTF??????

  • /watch?v=9xbJ3enqLnA&feature=f­vwp&NR=1

    Mentions one of the uses of cassettes in computers.

  • Read riholo message and that is just one of thousands if not millions examples of what a cassette was used for in a computer. Commodore 64 also had a cassette player as well and it was used for the same reason. On C64 though, some game you could save on a what?......wait for it......wait for it......a cassette. And I am 30 years old and I know what it was used for. Talking about two guys who doesn't need to have a show on YouTube.

  • Wow, you guys are complete idiots. What is the cassette for? Memory?.....Wow talking about idiots and don't know shit. It was for data storage, similar to what a hard drive does now but not advance as today's hard drives. You can save all kinds of info on a cassette, not just music. If you play a tape that has data on it you will hear a constant sound that sounds terrible. You may think that the tape is messed up if you hear it but its not. That is the infomation (data) that is on the tape.

  • @RGBcrazy Somebody is butthurt

  • Dude, seriously? C'mon. I had a cassette computer and I'm only 46. I had an Ohio Scientific Challenger 4p... walnut side-rails... sweetness. I programmed a little plane to fly across the screen waving a banner that said "happy new year" using pokes & peeks in... jesus... must have been the late 70's. You'd ready the computer, hit "save" and then turn on the cassette to record and it would record your program. Then later you'd hit "load" and rewind to the beginning of the program and press play.

  • lol, isnt everything bought at a london auction? like seriously, everything nowadays is sold at a london auction. never german. never polish. never american. not even irish. always london.

  • like if just like the top comment even if its dumb xD

  • Nice LightSaber. Wait, thats just your Like/Dislike bar. :P

  • if you make a computer show you ought to recherche better. What was the cassette for ? Memory ? ok...

  • These guys are too moronic to have a computer show. Anyone with any knowledge whatsoever knows that back in the late 70s the only feasble storage was via cassette tape. Just about every computer used this back then because there really was no standard for floppy disks yet, and they were expensive and hard drives were out of the question.

    Perhaps they should have ask their fathers.

  • I KNEW MAC WAS SATANIC. lol jk

  • So these were sold for 666.66 dollars back in the day? A rather odd choice for a price tag.

  • @funnystuffcollector I dont think you noticed that they have atleast 3 apple computers, and put the map behind them upside down as a joke. haha they're just trolling

  • Stupid.

  • The real Beavis and Butthead

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  • Dicksssssssssssssssss

    

  • GAWD!!!! What idiots!!!!!!

  • wow for two people with computers right in front of there faces you guys don't know dick shit lol

  • Guys, guys, guys... computers used cassettes back in the 80's as well... yes, as some type of "memory"... C64, Amiga, Atari, Spectrum... 'twas long ago, it was...

  • AMIGA 4ever!

  • nice system just thought i would try and ansewer the casset question probably the casset contained the operating system or hard ware set up this would be commen for the time based on my experience of owing a early computer system that was tape based

  • Oh my god $666 Steve Jobs Went Mad!!

  • lol tryin to look smart with an upside down worldmap.. XD

  • Cassettes were used before the disk drive came out. My first computer we had to use cassettes to save and load. It took anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.

  • I hope you guys are using Macs. Lol

  • Like others have said, if you guys were capable of "tech analysis" you would easily know that the cassette was for storage. The 8 inch floppy had been commercially available for a few years and the 5 1/4 inch floppy came out in 1976, but the cassette was much more affordable to the average hobbyist.

  • I'll sell you a C= Educator 64 for just $25k! :)

  • ".. you actually see a CASSETTE...! Now, I dunno what that was used for, maybe some kind of MEMORY?". Obviously our intrepid presenters don't know the first thing about computers OR how to use the internet. Or Google. Or Wiki... Dicks. Do some research if you're gonna chat shit about it.

  • @Thirteenpoint7 Even I know what a cassette is, and I'm only 14.

  • I bought my first used computer in 1984 a Commodore Vic 20 at the age of 12.

    We user the tape cassette to load and save programs on our computer. The other way to get a programs like a game on a computer was to use a add PCB with an Eprom inside a cartridge but you could not save up change on a Eprom and Hard Drive was highly expensive at that time and very fragile in the early 1980's

  • sold for $666... My God O_O

  • You could load a program from a cassette by simply converting beeps on the tape to digital info. At one time there were actually radio shows where they'd play those beeps so you could record them at home and then load the tape into your computer thus receiving software via a radio. (a clear signal was of the essence).

  • The cassette had data on it. It works like this. The tape's data is loaded onto the system's memory and it stays there for you to work with until it's turned off. You could also save your work onto other tapes as not to mess up your primary copy.

    As computers progressed, they started doing it with floppy disks. Today we just use a hard drive or even an SSD to boot the OS onto the memory. Yes, we still work by these principles today. The memory is crucial.. no pun intended xD

  • Yes idiots, the tape was the "disk drive"

    except ITS NOT A DISK.

  • People really should keep thier yaps closed if they don;t know about the subject. These two kids have no idea what they are talking about; Go now, momy is calling you

  • Waiting for 1kb document to load...........

    What the...... oh why won't u work

    oh wooden apple typewriter!?!

  • yes the tape is its hard drive.it should of had a rom chip input info came from the tape program on data it was used on many computers and arcade games like data east in the 70 and 80s

    cool a 

  • Damn fan boys, they'll pay anything for a Mac and then tell me why they don't need a screen, clock or anything on their Apple-1

  • Does anyone think it's ironic that the first personal computer was the price of the Mark of the Beast?

  • Do you research first dudes..........kids these days.

  • the guy on the left looks dead

  • why do people dislike this?

  • @MrTheduderocks Because they know more than you do, and realize that these two idiots ARE idiots!

  • The guy on the left was watching porn during this video.

  • Apple worshiped the devil???

  • @gamer14832 That's an Australian map.

  • You sound like Apple wannabes talking about Technology while you actually have no shit what you're talking about.

  • Most home computers late 70s to early 80s had software loaded on cassette. Sometimes you had to manually rewind and play the same bit of tape over and over if it did not load correctly. The original Elite on my BBC Micro took twenty minutes to load! And you had to sit by the machine and listen to the weird noise it made to monitor its progress! The main game screen was loaded in line by line as a bitmap! You'd have to sit there and watch the screen slooowly fill up :)

  • press 7 for stoner face

  • oh the cassettes hours to load your program uuuuuuuugh....

  • The Case was fraps you recorded your work... easy peesy

  • The Cassette is a Form of a Hard Drive or a Floppy but far more Primitive. it would hold all the data for a program. The User would have to Start, Pause and Stop it manually.

  • foul

  • Storage devices comes in the form of 5 inch floppies, 3.5 inch floppies, Cassette, Colorado cassette, thumbdrives, Orbit drives, zip drives, ect. ect. ect. lol

  • How old ARE you guys ? LOL

  • The cassette is used like a hard drive or thumb drive today. I used to have a TI-99 back in the day and the cassette was for loading games and/or programs into the computer and when I was done, I had to load all the new data from the computer back onto the cassette in order to save my progress. It took a long time to do this and it made fax machine sounds while doing so

  • THE MINUTE YOU START BEING WRONG ABOUT WHAT THE CASSETTES DO IT MAKES ME SAD THAT YOU CONTINUE TO SPEAK.

  • @KantraWulf I AGREE!!!!!

  • Casette is used for listening to for audio setup

  • @IDeadImau5 Wrong....read my other post and you'll know exactly what the cassette was used for back then.

  • Hipsters in the commercial. Hipsters in the video. Wtf?

  • Mu Grandad Has 1 in his garage but won't sell it. LOL $213,000 I'm rich in a way

  • @DE10NIKE Auctions vary. It doesnt mean everyone will sell for that. And it also depends on demand for a given time, and your geography. lol

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  • DICK... HEADS...

    DUMB... AS... FUCK...

  • The audio cassette is to give instructions to operate that machine.. Dumb Ass .. The audio tape serves as a manual similar to those CD that we get when we purchase a new comp. 

  • You two are retarded.

  • look closely

    One of 200 original Apple 1 computers sold at auction this week for a staggering $213,000. Two hundred Apple-1 computers are estimated to have been created and sold for ******$666.66****** before Apple Computer Inc. was founded in 1977. Once the Apple II, the company's first official product, was released, many of the Apple-1 models were reclaimed as trade-ins. Only about 50 are still known to exist, many of them indexed by hardware developer Mike Willegal.

  • i think those guys are upside down

  • 69 696 views!

  • LOL they don't know what the cassette tape recorder is for.

  • trolls almost successful.

  • word

  • the cassette held about 200-400k of data per side depending on the tape quality and length you would you it as a disk drive just as you would a modern hard drive or usb flash drive

  • cassette??? i m only 22, and i have used cassette in my PC in 1999. That was the last time i used cassette on a personal PC. Now i used the 50TB cassette in my IBM servers. Your youtube, facebook, twitter data is also being backed up on cassettes. My mind is blown by these guys.

  • @JavaLuCpp they used audiocassettes for the Apple I and for the TI-99 in late 70s and early 80s for data storage and loading data.

  • @patriotofliberty1776 I know, I still have and use those.

  • why is the world map behind them upside down? LOL?

  • @gamer14832 Does the world have up?

  • @gamer14832 to see if your paying attention. lolz

  • @gamer14832 because your DOWNSIDE UP

  • @gamer14832 That is an Australian map. If you look closely, the words are right side up.

  • @gamer14832 Is the map upside down, or are THEY UPSIDE DOWN....?

  • @SonicTheAwesome1337 You just opened my mind

  • @gamer14832 Americans can't read maps.

  • @gamer14832 so that the Youtube computer doesn't kick out the video for copyright infringement

  • @gamer14832 how do we know its not right side up

  • @gamer14832 maybe they live in Australia.

  • @gamer14832 I think the map is the right way up. You can see it says "The World" just off the coast of Chile.

  • 1:10 I am 34 and I fully remember all the line of atari and commodore lines around 1985. Those guys are commenting the technology they have no clue about. Casette recorders were a standard for maybe a decade.

  • Yea,casette drives were for storage and programs i do believe,but im 16,so i could be wrong

  • Wow these guys are not bright. Typical demographic of Apple users?  Seems so...

  • i have apple 1 it coast me 1,000

  • they sure made out after this vid

  • mmjmm idiots

    

  • Idiots.

  • that computer could run gta4 faster than mine

  • that 213,000 is probably only equivilant to about 69,000 in the 70s, lol, dont forget about inflation.

  • How old are you guys ?

  • why do ppl dislike?

  • the tape drive wer becase befor thar wer flopy disks the programs wer stored on tapes

  • The cassettes were used for storing programming data.

  • fuck you guys are dumb asses

  • it was for audio

  • @H3adsh0t3211

    The CPU's in older computers are better. Not tech wise, But money wise. They have more gold amounts in the.

  • seems legit

  • Why where they sold for exactly 666 dollars

  • @H3adsh0t3211 So they scare fags like you.

  • @Intensetaco did i say i was scared little bitch?

  • To see what I'm talking about with cassettes, watch angry video game nerd's review on transformers. He uses a commodore tape to play a transformers game.

  • @1:00 are you serious? Cassettes were kind of like memory cards we have today, the adapter being the tape player. What astonishes me is someone who probably knows a bit about analog modems from the nineties with that ear piercing sound wouldn't have a good guess as to what cassettes could offer. They produced tones that the computer understood as electronic impulses for programming. If you find any old commodore 64 cassettes (very easy to find) and played them back, you'd hear that nasty dial t

  • Se Nos Eua Esta 213 mil dolares imagine se divesse aqui no brasil , iria ser um milhao e alguns quebrados

  • You should have stopped at your cassette rant. You guys sound like a bunch of hipsters talking about old technology in a Starbucks.

  • @poetsguide THEY ARE HIPSTERS.

  • The Apple I was NOT the first, nor was it much of a pioneer. There were tons of 8 bits already out, a whole swarm of CP/M machines that came way before the Apple, the C=64, the PET, , the Atari, Timex-Sinclair, the TRS-80 Model 1 (which is older than the Apple 1, 1977 btw). You want really old school you built an Alatair, or a Heathkit, or any other number of machines. I have a Bell Howell Black Apple II, and all the rest... and there is nothing special about the Apple at all.

  • @cobrachoppergirl In fact even the Apple **II** preceded every one of the systems you listed, and was in fact the first fully assembled personal computer on the market.

  • Think about how slow a tape recorder would be compared to a hard disk or even a floppy drive, and this might give you an idea of what it could have been used for. It was the main way of storing and loading programs at that time. How could it have been used for RAM extension? I didn't use Apples back then, I had a Speccy, but all the home computers before the Commodore Amiga used cassettes. The first IBM PC had a cassette tape port as well.

  • You are a nice couple of Rtards.

  • wow from 0:53 onward I feel like some guy from the future who's discussing technology from 100 years ago.

  • kay guys, question before i rant... are u two a couple? lol just the way you look at each other makes me think you are.... now rant. OMFG guys im probably younger than you and know what the tape was used for! IT WaS USED IN HIFI CASSETTE PLAYERS TO PLAY MUSIC!!! no j/k it was basically a removable storage media there wasnt much for an OS. a few lines of code, to boot whatever was on your media (this case tape) also known as a SHELL.

  • 666.66 satanic fail!

  • ur worls map is turn the wrong way

  • @TheDaniiboy "ur" retarded.

  • These two idiots don't know anything about computers.

  • @Roflcopter4b Why are they idiots?

  • @Roflcopter4b LMAO

  • @Roflcopter4b i was just going to say the same thing

  • In class we loaded our work off a compact cassette. Any recorder with adjustable levels, usually turned up. Sounds like handshake noise when using old dial-up. Even Modems were acoustic w/handset cradle....After done loading we used it to play music. They had the big floppy drive option, but at 600 bucks. Before 1981 schools used numbered punch cards for input to CRT green Fortran types.

  • i love the map in the back! it's so original!

  • a cassette is like a radio, to listen to music, a really big radio, and crappy, and old... and I don't know what a cassette has to do with apple

  • Wow... the standard houshold 120v outlet as a feature gets me every time.

  • How can you not know what the cassettes are used for? You look about 25, you must know.

  • cmon surely you know that cassettes were used before disks

  • where was the screen

  • Fanboys...

  • Wow, this video is a total failure, sorry.

    1: You guys are acting on purpose 'stupid' about the casseste.

    2a: Why create a story about an old computer where you have no video off?

    2,b: I wanted to see that computer, only reason I cliked this link lol

  • That's a Peice of Dog Shit!

  • Looks like a commodore 64 with a wood frame on it lol

  • The cassette tape you see was actually for storage. There were tape players called "datasets" and you would record your programs in a linear way on cassette tapes. You'd have to take note of the counter to know where a program is on the tape if you had multiple programs on a single tape. it would easily take 5 minutes and more to load a program. That was horrible but it was the next best thing to ROM (read only memory) on cartridges.

  • yea the cassette you see was the floppy of that time you would store info on them in a casette player type drive.

  • My Uncle owned one >>>

  • yea the cassette is used for memory

  • $666? That computer is the DEVIL! Ahhhhh

  • this thing looks like it was made by a couple hippies in their parents garage.

    oh wait...

  • @highguyontour the map is not upside down its just a southern hemisphere oriented map

  • You didn't even know what the cassette was before you made the video on it.

    Wow.

    way to do your research genius.

  • i say in the case of this kit the tape might be additional spoken instructions or possible basic programs storage.

  • Wow even shitty old apple computers are overpriced

  • @addict247365 It was made in a garage, what do you expect?

  • @addict247365

    all apple products are overpriced

  • @addict247365 It was Apple's first computer.