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>You had floppies? ;-)
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>Actually some of the early PCs -- i.e. before the IBM PC -- did not have floppy drives. The storage mechanism was cassette tape.
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My friend's dad had a TI (I think) and one of those portable tape players from Radio Shack with a "special" computer output (probably just a headphone jack). If you turned up the sound while loading a program, it sounded a lot like a modem/fax connecting, which I didn't hear until years later. He eventually replaced it with a Commodore 64 and external floppy drive that was soooo fast <g>. Pioneering times for the PC.