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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 20:50:21 EST Joshua Judson Rosen

@spinlock showed me this page today: "booting from a vinyl record" http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
Nice !hack
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1. Booting from a vinyl record
  
  By Jozef from BOGIN, JR.
  
  Booting from a vinyl record
1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 21:43:06 EST Joshua Judson Rosen
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  @spinlock there were apparently a few people publishing #software on #vinyl in the early #1980; mainly #music video !hacks: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/pete-shelley-screensaver-and-demoscene-pioneer/
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  1. Pete Shelley, screensaver and demoscene pioneer
    
    In 1983, Pete Shelley's album XL•1 included as its final track a program for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8-bit home computer. To play it, you had to first copy the track from the vinyl record to cassette, wait several minutes for the computer to read the cassette, and then press the any key once you dropped the needle on the first track! Lyrics and visualizations ensued. Here's the ...

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