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video games on cassette????
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Yup. Quite effective, if rather slow. The Amstrad had the cassette recorder built in, unlike my earlier Sinclair Spectrum. I actually have a 3" (
not 3.5") external floppy disc drive for the Amstrad, though it doesn't seem to work any more.
That was a real advance for its time. You could get an astonishing 178 Kb of data on each side (they were flippy-floppies
)! It even came with CP/M on a disc - a whole new operating system to play with.
I suspect the main reason the Amstrad has survived is that I only really used it for a couple of years or so. My next computer was an
Acorn_Archimedes. After that it was boring old Windows machines (with a bit of Ubuntu as well - I was given an 'obsolete' Compaq which is about 10 years old, so I put Ubuntu on it and use it as a web browser sometimes). As you can tell, I'm not very good at throwing things away...