I remember typing in programs from magazines and printouts we'd get from friends.
My "computing" teacher in Junior High School used to get floppies and tapes sent to him from some friends in American universities, so we got to play around with the source code for some games on the Commodore PET. I still remember cutting notches in our 5.25" floppies to make them double sided.
We had acoustic couplers but living in rural Nova Scotia we couldn't afford the long-distance charges and none of us were ever good enough to be phreakers.
I remember the only problem with cutting the notch to make the disc double sided was it turned the other way when upside down and the dust collected by the fabric hair brush unloaded all the dust back onto the disc :)
My "computing" teacher in Junior High School used to get floppies and tapes sent to him from some friends in American universities, so we got to play around with the source code for some games on the Commodore PET. I still remember cutting notches in our 5.25" floppies to make them double sided.
We had acoustic couplers but living in rural Nova Scotia we couldn't afford the long-distance charges and none of us were ever good enough to be phreakers.
Good times.