Tip: turn the volume all the way down before listening to the recording.
I had an unsettling worry that I was being programmed when I listened to it - a bit like an alternative to the virus in Pluribus.
The 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 -
Very unlikely, you need the browser for that
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.
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.
> built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used)
Wait a minute, what?? How did I not know about this.
Probably because they got rid of it when the XT came out, so it was only there for (a few months under) 2 years. But it was a good trade; you got 3 more ISA slots.
Nice 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.
Cool. I remember getting one such disc in a music magazine in the 80s. It occured to me then that you could maybe put software on it, but I never saw this implemented.
In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
Old scanners where 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.
*were
Okay, 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.
Sure, because why not!
Cool idea.