Floppy ROM: distributing software on flexidiscs
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@jandrese wrote: Loading programs from vinyl records feels like actual Steampunk to me. It really isn't that big of a difference from the primitive cassette loading of the day, but it still feels like...
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@PrestonSturges wrote: The disc was played on the turntable, recorded on the cassette deck, and then read in the shoebox style cassette recorder of the PC? Read full topic
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@Bill_Sudbrink wrote: Not programs, but Tomita's album "The Bermuda Triangle" has "secret" messages encoded in a similar fashion to how these programs are recorded. Read full topic
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@Bill_Sudbrink wrote: There is/was no reason you could not just plug the output from your amp (attached to your turntable) straight through to your "cassette port" as long as you were a little careful...
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@PrestonSturges wrote: You could have loaded it right off the turntable but PCs had so little memory back in the 70's that the software had to be loaded every time, except for BASIC which was on the...
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@OtherMichael wrote: The more things change, the more things stay the same. http://earlytelevision.org/baird_recordings.html (okay, it's a TV signal, not computer code. But we're in the same...
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@fr4nk wrote: This continued into the 80s, most participating musicians seemed to include programs for the ZX Spectrum on their albums. Thompson Twins Adventure Game!...
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@OtherMichael wrote: I take that back. We also had TV recordings for pre-hidef TVs on records in the 1970s (non-laserdiscs). I think it was linked to even by BB at some point, but I can't find back...
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@Engineer wrote: While you didn't have to transfer it to a cassette, I did it for the one I had simply because I didn't trust the thin vinyl to last. Plus the turntable was nowhere near the computer...
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@SYNERDATA wrote: Interface Age is what Byte magazine was called before it became bloated and over-commercial. It was great, back then, when one had to type programs in from magazines.Happier, simpler...
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@jhbadger wrote: No, "Interface Age" and "Byte" were separate magazines. In the early 1980s when I first got into computers, both were around. Byte went from being a cool hobbyist magazine to a...
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