1200-Baud Archeology 211
jamie found this singularly geeky article on reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a cassette tape. It claims to offer the first confirmed perfect dump (BIN) of the 4096 bytes of this venerable interpreter. Terrific fun for the whole family. "The Apple I is extremely rare. Only 200 were built, and less than 100 are believed to be in existence. Neither Steve nor Woz own an Apple I any more, and neither does Apple Inc. The cassettes are even rarer, as not every Apple I came with one... So here is how to decode the signal. Let us first open the audio file in Audacity and look at the waveform... It is now time to write a small program to measure and dump the width of the pulses."
this makes me want to take a dump of my own (Score:4, Funny)
*off to bathroom*
I'll report my findings later
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Uhh... (Score:5, Funny)
That must be one weird family...
Re:Alternative tools (Score:4, Funny)
Re:this makes me want to take a dump of my own (Score:4, Funny)
be sure to check the logs
Re:Teach it! (Score:4, Funny)
There's a simple solution; post it as a hex (or binary or octal) dump. You can then claim that it's just an excerpt of the first trillion or so digits of pi. By the time Apple's lawyers determine it isn't, the guys who decoded & published it will be long dead.
Re:Pom1 (Score:2, Funny)
Hmmm....an Apple in Java....I'll have to try that.
*dunks a piece of Washington Golden Delicious in his coffee*
*munch*Not*munch*bad*munch*
Those were the days... (Score:4, Funny)
Many seasons ago, in a high school computer lab in the Bronx. I would save programs from computer labs Commodore PET to tape and wonder why they would always be blank the next day. Over time I realized that riding the NYC trains with my school bag on the car floor was not such a cool idea. NYC trains were somehow erasing the tapes when they were place closed to the floor. Until I figured this out there were many nights spent pondering what the gods of computing had against me. Curse you Number 6 Line! Curse you!!!
"Ahhh the suffering...."
Re:Electron ROM Ripping, ol' school (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Electron ROM Ripping, ol' school (Score:4, Funny)
In Federated Brazil... (Score:4, Funny)
the idea was to make talk radio accessible to def people.
Like Mos Def and Def Leppard?
Re:this makes me want to take a dump of my own (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Apple I BASIC? (Score:4, Funny)
The fun is in recovering it, not using it!
The real fun is in irritating Woz by reporting all the bugs to him again.
Hey Woz. I just found this small program you wrote and boy, is this code terrible!