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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:29AM (2 children)
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(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:59PM (1 child)
For the diehard fans, I swear all of this is true!
I think I liked the comedic story on the P&L CD, more, though, even if the white roses made a good number of untrue geeks get off their chairs and visit the far corners of the internet like they should have been doing to begin with.
I also wish they had known they'd get an entire data CD for the DBA album. Some of their content was pretty fascinating to go through, and it's a shame they had put so much effort into trying to fit it all into what would be left on the audio disk only to find they were being provided a whole second disk just for their stuff...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 29 2019, @02:20AM
Can... you contextualize?