Retro Tech and Movie Blog

Ah, the days of movie making when budgets were low and most “high tech” was represented by a bank of flashing lights or actual hardware purchased from the department store. Although the plots were in the clouds, having that personal connection with the technology almost made them believable… almost. .

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It all started with simply wanting to obtain the first C64 programming book I ever bought for myself, “Using the Commodore 64 in the Home”. Since I could not find a copy of this book on-line anywhere, at a reasonable price and in good shape, I turned to the publishing service of Lulu.com. After that, I was hooked, as they say.

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I guess I’m not the only one who thinks that printing a program listing to paper is a viable data storage solution. Louis Sander, from Philadelphia, seems to think along the same lines as me, in this regard !

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What I continue to find so remarkable is that, you could take something that is printed on a piece of paper and get it to make your computer do something, like play a game.

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According to the experts, those flimsy floppy disks that I used to store all of my important information onto would be turned to dust by this time. But, here it is, well over three decades later and I’m still reading the same information I stored onto them all those years ago. Good thing I didn’t know that floppy disks had a 40 hour life expectancy.

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You know, I really get a kick when hobbies that I enjoy come together; like when you’re watching a movie and you see real-world technology of the time appear in a scene. It’s even better when they’re actually using the tech the way it was intended to be used and not as just a prop.

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I know, it’s been a while since I posted to the blog. Been occupied with the spring seeding season, as well as other hobbies that I’ve been focusing on over the past few months. But, today I thought I’d post an article about good ol’ physical media over digital…

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