6 Oct
2016
6 Oct
'16
11:45 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:14:06AM -0500, Jason T wrote:
I was also going to ask if anyone knew of any other examples of
phonograph records used to store data. The only one I'm aware of is
the flexi-discs that came in early-80s computer magazines.
Yes, there is a swedish band "Adolphson & Falk" which had a data-track
on one of their records. It was the last track on the B side of "?ver
tid och rum". They never mentioned it and likely left there as a sort of
pussle. It turns out it is a program for Atari 800 [1].
Also, when I visited the Museum of Computer Games in Berlin [2], they
had vinyl record with Basic. Turns out that floppies was hard to come by
in the old east block and vinyl was used in some cases instead.
[1] http://retro.faidros.net/af.html
[2] http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/1210_Home.htm
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