Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
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Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
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Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#2Okay, that is very cool. I love how doable it is too if you can get hands on the media that is.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#3Old scanners were SCSI, which made me wonder if you could use them as boot devices, if you could stuff the scanner driver and OCR software into the BIOS. Might be easier now that we have uEFI.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#4Sure, because why not!
Cool idea.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#5The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg
It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#6The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.
I never got any cookie prompts for this site so I guess these did not make it past the content filters which keep cdn-cookieyes.com at bay. No cookies, no problem.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#7Nice little project.
Back in day, magazines distributed software on flexidisc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc) I remember it being very unreliable. The magazine instructed you to copy the flexidisc to a cassette tape first as you could only usually play the disc one or two times.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#8Okay, that is very cool. I love how doable it is too if you can get hands on the media that is.
They're fairly expensive, but on-demand vinyl is easy to get made.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#9In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#10The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.
I've started doing:
yt-dlp https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg -o - | mpv -