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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.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 26 2019, @03:16PM (2 children)
I have a stack, about, I'd say, 3-4 inches high of them still sealed in original cellophane wrapping. At this point, I have no intention of ever opening them in my lifetime. All Christian. Not all are rock. Some are ancient Amy Grant, and other early 80's.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by pdfernhout on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:15PM
See for example this discussion: "Cellophane - the silent killer?" https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/368434 [discogs.com]
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_vinyl_discs [wikipedia.org]
Good luck with your records whatever you do with them.
Wow. I really enjoyed this story -- having programmed with Commodore equipment after starting on a KIM-1. Nice to see new things about them in the news. There was an understandability all the way down to the circuitry such computers had which most modern systems lack. And there were some nice things including immediacy and recoverability about working so close to the metal with a machine language monitor and an interrupt button.
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.
(Score: 2) by TrentDavey on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:14PM
It's going to be difficult to open them after the end of your lifetime.
You'll be looking down from heaven, kicking yourself, watching your kids donate them to Goodwill.
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(Or looking up from you know where.)
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I'm glad I'm a Bright - my worldview contains no supernatural elements.
http://www.the-brights.net/ [the-brights.net]