For real? My tweaking days ended when floppy came out for the C64.

Maybe the C64 datasette never got the upgrade?

A flathead is still a screwdriver, is it not?

It was a Philips screw IIRC. You can also use a flathead screwdriver on them but you shouldn’t IMHO.

Dude would just walk up to the tape drive, masterfully tweak the screw for a second, and it’d work.

Me too! For some reason I was the only guy in school who could do that. Fun times. 😊

Because I had a floppy drive and that’s what I obviously preferred to use.

In the beginning these were not available. Also I remember them costing the same as the C64 itself. As soon as I could afford one I got one obviously.

I just another item that could a generational riddle: the hole-punch that made your one-sided floppy two-sided.

Were you also there when the floppy replaced the datasette? 😊

The screwdriver is not for the tape. It’s for adjusting the audio head so it can pick up the data on the tape.

When someone gave you a tape with some nice games on it there was a near 100% chance you needed to adjust your datasette to read them.