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buildsjets ◴[] No.43535772[source]

There are websites with WAV files of software cassettes. You can connect the audio out of your cellphone to the cassette input of your Apple ][ and load audio directly from the web.

https://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/readme.html

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1. nacnud ◴[] No.43535882[source]

Ah, the retro equivalent of "curl -L <script-url> | bash" ... :)

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2. jandrese ◴[] No.43538023[source]

Yep. But of course security was not a concern with the machines of the era. At all. There wasn't even the concept beyond locking the entire computer away in a cabinet. For the most part a virus couldn't hurt your machine or survive a power off, although there are a few machines of the era with buggy "killer registers" that you could set that would cause a malfunction serious enough that could burn out some part of the machine.