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If you've scrolled through the list of boot options offered on any PC's BIOS, it reads like a history of storage technology. Up top we have the options to boot from disk, often a solid-state drive, then USB disk, optical drive, removable media, and down the bottom there's usually an option to boot from the network. Practically no BIOS, however, has an option to boot a PC from a vinyl record — at least until now.
[...] [It] may not be the first time we've seen software on vinyl, but it's still a pretty cool hack. Want to try it yourself but lack a record-cutting lathe? Maybe laser-cutting your boot disc will work.
Source: https://hackaday.com/2020/11/23/booting-a-pc-from-vinyl-for-a-warmer-richer-os/
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @05:31AM (2 children)
I like to store my pet plush toy raccoon there.
May the raccoon be with you - always.
(Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday December 03 2020, @06:01AM (1 child)
A live raccoon can fit through an opening of only 3-4". You could totally fit a real one up your ass. As with any exercise, make sure to stretch first.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @06:10AM
NT
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @05:34AM
yeah i love Yoda's knotty penis
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @07:13AM
For some reason, I was expecting a noticeable difference.
In the meantime, I also remembered that modems sounded similar too.
(Score: 5, Funny) by BsAtHome on Thursday December 03 2020, @10:21AM (3 children)
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(Score: 4, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Thursday December 03 2020, @11:33AM (1 child)
Is there a 78 rpm option? I don't want the long wait for a 33 1/3 rpm to load!
Also, has the RIAA given this their blessing? Might be a violation of their rules, to make a gold plated record of a recording that hasn't been a big enough hit to sell $1 million worth of copies.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday December 03 2020, @04:01PM
Easily fixed by charging $1M for the first one.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @02:19PM
Don't forget to purchase some MonsterTM USB cables to give your keyboard more character and your mouse more depth.
(Score: 2) by rcamera on Thursday December 03 2020, @01:55PM (2 children)
a comment in TFA suggested that playing it backwards would load linux. but i highly suspect it'll load win10 with no way to disable cortana
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @02:24PM
challenge: write a computer code in assembly that works when instructions are executed in reverse order (as well as regular order).
single instruction codes need not apply.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @05:39PM
Nope. All you'll hear when you play it backwards is the Miranda rights.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday December 03 2020, @10:43PM (2 children)
Well, actually, I did too, some of those comments are funny. But my first two computers in 1982 and 1983, a TS-1000 and an MC-10, both loaded programs and saved data with cassette tapes. It could be done as well with LPs, but you'd have to load an awful lot of them, like loading Mandrake back in the day.
Actually, even worse. A CD's data is digital, LP is analog only, and analog signals take a lot more space.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2020, @11:15PM
Analog does not take more space. There "infinity" more information available. Generally digital is more wasteful. Example 10Mb Ethernet actually runs 20MHz on the "wire" (analog) taking 2 bits to encode 1.
Then there is waste of "space". Example modems on phone lines jump quickly from 300 to 1200 to 2400 to 4800 then immediately to 9600, 19,2k and 28k. Why instead of 1bit to 1bit (baud). once they got over 3.3kb (maximum encoding on audio phones sampled at 8kHz. They started to encode 2, 4, 8 bits to single "bit" in analog signal (ie multiple tones phase shifting).
About 28kb then there were special "modems" digital signal using phone 8K smapling rate. to pump the return back at 58kb.
PS: I had audio tape and paper tape back then as well. TTY43 was so nice to hear on daily bases.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2020, @03:56PM
Analog signals don't need to take more space.
For a given desired accuracy, you can compute how much space you need for the analog signal.
If your analog signal actually consists of binary (or base 8, or something small) data, it's not that big a deal to compress it quite a lot.
Modern tape storage is just tape storage after all...
Analog signals will take up a lot of space if you compare audio casette tapes (~1h) with the amount of high quality MP3s that you can put on a CD (~1h of "raw audio", although technically raw wave format is digital, not analog).