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Dr Jefyll
PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:17 am 
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This is kind of fun. Today on Hacker News someone posted this 2019 article from Pop Culture Retrorama.

The HN discussion is here.

J. :)

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Didn't one or more magazines also have floppy "discs," ie, a vinyl sheet that would not get damaged by magazine flex, which you could tear out and put on the record player for software in the same way? I know I've heard of software being put on broadcast radio too. One of the many accessories available for the HP-41 calculator was a bar-code wand. The neat thing about it was that you could distribute programs with nothing but a photocopier (or put it in a magazine), and the recipient could scan it with the bar-code wand much faster than entering it by hand from a listing. The mini printers also sold as accessories for it could print bar code from your programs or data.

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GARTHWILSON wrote:
[color=#000000]I know I've heard of software being put on broadcast radio too.

In the Netherlands: BASICODE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE). Available for several machines.

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Dr Jefyll wrote:
This is kind of fun. Today on Hacker News someone posted this 2019 article from Pop Culture Retrorama.


Wow! I used to have that album!
The funny thing is that the colors in that C64 program are the same colors I chose for my C64 Forth, but I've never seen that program before today.
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