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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the time-to-start-looking-at-your-vinyl-again dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

How often do you find Easter eggs in old vinyl records?

It sure was a surprise for [Robin Harbron] when he learned about a Commodore 64 program hidden on one of the sides of a record from the 1985 album of Christian rock band Prodigal. The host of the YouTube channel 8-Bit Show and Tell shows the “C-64” etching on one side of the vinyl, which he picked up after finding out online that the record contained the hidden program.

[...] Recording the audio onto a cassette and loading it onto a dataset reveals a short C64 program. The process is a little more troublesome that that, but after a few tries [Harbron] reveals a secret message, courtesy of Albert Einstein and Jesus Christ. It’s not the most impressive program ever written, but it’s pretty cool that programmers 35 years ago were able to fit it into only a few seconds of audio.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:10PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:10PM (#924931) Journal

    My favorite was back masking [youtube.com] by the 80s Christian group Petra: "What are you looking for the devil for when you ought to be looking for the Lord".

    That is right before the song begins. It's very brief. I heard it so many times. I was too young and hyper-focused on computers. Eventually it dawned on me that what I was hearing was backward audio of a voice. I used cassettes, but also had albums. I put the record on turntable in neutral, and manually spun it backward to hear the audio. Had to do it several times to make out what it was saying.

    List of backmasked messages [wikipedia.org]

    Press any key to save and continue, or any other key to exit without saving.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
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