[kach22i]

Originally Posted by red-beard

The first PCs had no hard-drive. In fact, most started out without diskettes. They started with a tape drive using cassette tape. So you started up the machine and to load a program, you put the cassette in, then walked away for 5+ minutes while the program loaded. .

I just saw something like that in an old James Bind film, you just need a tape!