Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-09 Thread Chris Pye
> On 8 Oct 2016, at 1:04 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > >> On 10/6/16 11:14 PM, Jason T wrote: >> It was >> either Kilobaud of Interface Age that had them. > > Interface Age > > I have a couple that I just ran across again that I need to digitize > There was just a

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Jon Elson
On 10/07/2016 01:01 AM, Glen Slick wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Jason T <silent...@gmail.com> wrote: Here's a scan - and special bonus audio tracks - of a brochure and 7" record I found on ebay recently: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/EG

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/6/16 11:14 PM, Jason T wrote: > It was > either Kilobaud of Interface Age that had them. Interface Age I have a couple that I just ran across again that I need to digitize There was just a discussion about these on the MAME developers list.

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/6/16 11:14 PM, Jason T wrote: > I was also going to ask if anyone knew of any other examples of > phonograph records used to store data. Inner City Unit's "Spectrum Program" is mentioned on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software I actually played it once

RE: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Gary L. Messick
> The 'E' in "EG" is for Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, who is famous > for his pioneering work in strobe photography. He was quite a legend > as a professor at MIT. I went to school with his grandson Eric, and his son Bob was my High School Physics teacher. Needless to say, we did *A LOT* of

Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Jason T
Here's a scan - and special bonus audio tracks - of a brochure and 7" record I found on ebay recently: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/EG%26G "Data on a Platter" from a company called EG (anyone heard of them?) describes their vinyl (as in analog aud

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:14:06AM -0500, Jason T wrote: > > I was also going to ask if anyone knew of any other examples of > phonograph records used to store data. The only one I'm aware of is > the flexi-discs that came in early-80s computer magazines. Yes, there is a swedish band

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Jason T
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 1:03 AM, wrote: > came out in that year (it's on Youtube). It also mentions 'during later 1970 > and 1971' so I'd say 1969/70 as a guess. I wonder if any of those devices Oh yes, they did say that. I think that may give us a date, then. I was also

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Jason T
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Glen Slick wrote: > The 'E' in "EG" is for Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, who is famous > for his pioneering work in strobe photography. He was quite a legend > as a professor at MIT. Yeah, another list member sent me their Wiki link, which I

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread steven
Original Message Subject: Data on a Platter! From:"Jason T" <silent...@gmail.com> Date:Fri, October 7, 2016 3:32 pm To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts&quo

Re: Data on a Platter!

2016-10-07 Thread Glen Slick
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Jason T <silent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a scan - and special bonus audio tracks - of a brochure and 7" > record I found on ebay recently: > > http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/EG%26G > > "Data on a

Data on a Platter!

2016-10-06 Thread Jason T
Here's a scan - and special bonus audio tracks - of a brochure and 7" record I found on ebay recently: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/EG%26G "Data on a Platter" from a company called EG (anyone heard of them?) describes their vinyl (as in analog aud