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  1. Those of you from the 80's computing scene, how long did you think the games took to load over a tape? Your *experience* of time vs. actual.
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      So, I always imagined this was 30 minutes of watching, but based on my (new) knowledge of the ZX Spectrum, longest game could be 8m30s —
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        Header has 2 bytes for data block length, so 0xFFFF = 65535. Clock is 3.5Mhz, 0b1 = 1710 pulses * 2 (HI + LO) ∴ 8m30 jsconsole.com/?%28%280xffff%20*%208%20*%202%20*%201710%29%20*%20%281/3500000%29%29%20/%2060
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      Me: I'd guess it was half and hour of waiting and praying to the ZX overloads who decided whether the magnetic tape was intact or not.
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