Unusual media ideas (was RE: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie music tricks crossover)
30 Sep
2008
30 Sep
'08
7:05 p.m.
I also recall one of the magazines from the early days championing computer-readable
strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code but obviously much longer. Byte?
Kilobaud? It's not coming up from long-term archive....
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
Chuck Guzis [cclist at sydex.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:39 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie music tricks crossover
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Not the same thing, but I beleive that Elektor
magazine sold vinyl
records of programs for their computer projects (the TV games computer,
Junior computer, SC/MP system, etc). These were programs only, no
human-type music on the same disk.
In keeping with the spirit of this list, who's going to be the first
to encode CUTS data on a wax cylinder?
Cheers,
Chuck
30 Sep
30 Sep
7:42 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Ian King wrote:
I also recall one of the magazines from the early days
championing
computer-readable strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code
but obviously much longer. Byte? Kilobaud? It's not coming up from
long-term archive....
Cauzin Softstrip?
8:02 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Ian King wrote:
On a mostly-unrelated note, does anyone recall the spam-boink-cheese
protocol?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
I also recall one of the magazines from the early
days championing
computer-readable strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code
but obviously much longer. Byte? Kilobaud? It's not coming up from
long-term archive....
Cauzin Softstrip? 
9:35 p.m.
On a mostly-unrelated note, does anyone recall the
spam-boink-cheese
protocol?
You mean that goofy one-off thing Brian Enigma, myself, and a couple of
other random hackers did one year at DEFCON (I think it was DEFCON 9, when
we were trying to run 300 bps Bell 103 across two plastic cups and
string)?
Hardly Classic Computer related.
Background here: http://netninja.com/files/sbc/
10:32 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 feedle at feedle.net wrote:
I know... I was trying to mess with heads.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
On a mostly-unrelated note, does anyone recall
the spam-boink-cheese
protocol?
You mean that goofy one-off thing Brian Enigma, myself, and a couple of
other random hackers did one year at DEFCON (I think it was DEFCON 9, when
we were trying to run 300 bps Bell 103 across two plastic cups and
string)?
Hardly Classic Computer related. 
7:43 p.m.
New subject: Unusual media ideas (was RE: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie music tricks crossover)
Byte Paperbyte?
http://vt100.net/mirror/harte/Unclassified/Paperbyte_Bar_Code_Loader_Articl…
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
I also recall one of the magazines from the early days
championing computer-readable strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code but
obviously much longer. Byte? Kilobaud? It's not coming up from long-term
archive....
8:17 p.m.
New subject: Unusual media ideas (was RE: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie music tricks crossover)
Yup, that's the one! I thought it was a cool idea, except that I couldn't see it
scaling well.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
Glen Slick [glen.slick at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:43 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Unusual media ideas (was RE: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie
music tricks crossover)
Byte Paperbyte?
http://vt100.net/mirror/harte/Unclassified/Paperbyte_Bar_Code_Loader_Articl…
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
I also recall one of the magazines from the early days
championing computer-readable strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code but
obviously much longer. Byte? Kilobaud? It's not coming up from long-term
archive....
9:09 p.m.
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 22:05, Ian King wrote:
I also recall one of the magazines from the early days
championing
computer-readable strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code but
obviously much longer. Byte? Kilobaud? It's not coming up from long-term
archive....
The term "paperbytes" comes to mind, though I can't recall which magazine
it
was in either. There was a lot of trying to deal with different ways of
avoiding having to type in long listings back in those days. :-)
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On
Behalf Of Chuck Guzis [cclist at sydex.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
4:39 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie music tricks crossover
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
Not the same thing, but I beleive that Elektor
magazine sold vinyl
records of programs for their computer projects (the TV games computer,
Junior computer, SC/MP system, etc). These were programs only, no
human-type music on the same disk.
In keeping with the spirit of this list, who's going to be the first
to encode CUTS data on a wax cylinder?
Cheers,
Chuck 
1 Oct
1 Oct
1:24 p.m.
New subject: Unusual media ideas (was RE: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie
I also recall one of the magazines from the early days championing
computer-readable strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code
but obviously much longer. Byte? Kilobaud? It's not coming up from
long-term archive....
There was a barcode reader 'wand' for the HP41 calculator, and later
tHP41 'solution books' (compilations of user-submitted programs came
with barcodes for all the programs in that book so you could scan them in
rather than typing them.
-tony
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