TheVisitor - 9:40 am on Jul 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

I remember the very first cassette players with dual 'decks' came out about the same time as the speccy (or a year or so afterwards). For the first time, this allowed the copying of one tape onto another. As tapes were the medium for the speccy programs, copied games started to change hands rapidly at school at this point, as I remember.

I suppose these were the very first examples of software piracy on a mass level?

Although impossible if you has a microdrive like Trillian...