They gave you a cassette player to record your programs simply because every time you shut off this computer you lost everything programmed on it. So, you had to reload all the programs you wanted to use each time you turned it on. Most things were in the Basic Language which is a pretty easy computer language to learn to use effectively.
Instead of a cassette player they are showing a Floppy Disc system instead which likely came with a later model or separately somehow. You can see a Tape wire system heading out of the back of the floppy disc to the back of the TV or keyboard in this also. The floppy disc system is white in this picture.
So, you basically had a black and white TV monitor and a Keyboard and only a Cassette player with the first model I bought for $800 in 1978 in California then.
However, around 1966 to 1968 I had learned the Fortran Computer language and the Cobol Business computer language and worked part time for the Glendale Board of education processing IQ tests for students in Glendale, California while I attended Glendale College then.
My best friend didn't want to be drafted into the army and die on the front lines of the Viet Nam war like many died within the first couple of weeks while there in Viet Nam so he took a course at Glendale College in Jet engine maintenance and joined the Air Force repairing fighter jets and B-52 Bombers so he wouldn't die over there. So, he spent his time in the Air Force in Thailand maintaining and repairing jet engines instead of dying over there in the Army as an Army draftee.
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