19 May
1997
19 May
'97
3:17 p.m.
On Mon, 19 May 1997 05:27:50 +0100 (BST), someone said:
On the line of interesting storage devices - does
anyone remember the
"scanner" that read strips of encoded data. I don't remember what it
was called, but for a little while they printed some of these strips in
Nibble. I think it was an Apple II only thing. I guess you could read
and print these strips and they generated programs when you scanned
them.
There was a thing called Oscar for the TI-99/4A and other systems.
Some magazines printed both human-readable printed listings and
Oscar-readable code.
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Barry Peterson bm_pete(a)ix.netcom.com
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.