Software Distribution By Vinyl

townxelliot writes "Beige Records is home to the intriguing 8-Bit Construction Set. Their record has the distinction of being "the first ever use of the vinyl recording medium for software distribution - the inside tracks are audio data which can be dubbed to cassette tape and booted in your respective atari or commodore 8-bit computers". Samples of their music ("entirely programmed in 6502 assembly language") are available for download."

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Re:Data on vinyl done before

[Mark Hood]

Yup, it has been [slashdot.org]...

Mark

Why bother?

[haelduksf]

If you really wanted to, you could probably encode music onto a piece of cheese...but what's the point?

Re:Scannable?

[stx23]

Works fine with Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, Neil Young's Weld and the pop stylings of Merzbow.

Re:Hasn't this been done before?

[legojenn]

I was ripped off living in Canada, all I had was Compute! magazine. I learned bad typing habits from that magazine. I also enter basic or machine code and then comparing it to a checksum. It was tedious, but it prepared for work in an office environment.

Re:ahh...

[ajs318]

Believe it or not, not only was it possible for interested amateurs to build their own equipment capable of playing analogue gramophone records, it was actually encouraged! See, in those days, nobody ever tried to flout common law by pretending that you were not privy to a secret embodied in an article which you rightfully owned.

And every LP you bought was even labelled with the proper address to write to if you needed to obtain permission for making copies, broadcasting &c.