who calls or called video game cartridges or discs "tapes"?

[pstokely]

"Atari Tapes" "Nintendo Tapes" "Sega Tapes" "Playstation tapes" "Xbox tapes" .Some places have even advertised their games as "tapes". Nothing has ever been released for those consoles on magnetic media. These are probably the same people who "tape" programs on their DVRs.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Yeah, it sucks getting old.

But before floppy disks, cassette tapes were the storage media we had available. Of course, back then, Cobal was still on punched cards.

[dawg]

2. Not me. But if I had a DVR ...

I'd definitely tape things on it!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. I still buy "records", whatever media they're on.

Except for downloading. I don't get the concept of paying money for, well, nothing.

[OriginalGeek]

4. I just recently decided

to start buying records of the vinyl persuasion again. I have always liked the sound and nowadays a lot of my favorite artists will release vinyl with extra tracks or collectors editions on funky colored vinyl and they often include a code for free downloading of the digital version so I get the best of both worlds.

I totally agree about paying cash money for mp3s. never have, never will.


As for OP, my kids had a lot of game cartridges but my inlaws called them tapes when they bought them for presents. lol.

[harmonicon]

8. They're all "records."

Stuff's still recorded on cassettes and cds, isn't it?

I also don't understand why people will pay to download music. I understand that there's a price for convenience, but I don't think there's an equivalence between paying to access information once and paying to own a physical archive.

[sakabatou]

5. I remember cartridges.

For my Super Nintendo. But Playstation always had discs. They weren't tapes.

[mockmonkey]

6. I will admit

I know the difference between tapes and discs. But, I still sometimes call my ipod my walkman.

[eShirl]

7. our TRS-80 used tapes.

it came with a cassette tape player/recorder

exactly like this one:



You could buy games and other programs for it on cassette tape.

[harmonicon]

9. Same with my Vic-20 - my family's first computer.

Some programs came on cartridges that went into the back of the machine, but we also had an external tape drive.

[cemaphonic]

10. I knew I remembered one of the 80s family PCs used cassette storage.

We had Apples, but some of my friends had the TRS-80s.

Since I was a kid, and unfamiliar with the concept of RAM, but familiar with the operation of cassette players, I was really confused how the computer could get to the right 'place' in the game without constant ffwd and rewinding of the tape deck as you played it.