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[vetran]

Booting A PC From Vinyl For A Warmer, Richer OS | Hackaday

If you’ve scrolled through the list of boot options offered on any PC’s BIOS, it reads like a history of storage technology. Up top we have the options to boot from disk, often a solid-state drive, then USB disk, optical drive, removable media, and down the bottom there’s usually an option to boot from the network. Practically no BIOS, however, has an option to boot a PC from a vinyl record — at least until now.

[NickFitz]

KUATB

• Booting from a vinyl record - The original IBM PC had a cassette port, but why bother with a tape? ”Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! Why don’t we try to boot from a record player for a change?”

[vetran]

KUATB

oops sorry was saving Monday links for later after fixing this API stuff.

As always Nick you are ahead of me.

[Old Greg]

My last client stored their standard PC build in an interpretive dance.

[AtW]

My last client stored their standard PC build in an interpretive dance.

That’s very BASIC

[vetran]

My last client stored their standard PC build in an interpretive dance.

They ran out of fag packets?

[Old Greg]

They ran out of fag packets?

Victim of the no tobacco on campus policy.

[vetran]

Victim of the no tobacco on campus policy.

Remember that at Glaxo in the early 90s.

Fence to fence, Having to go to the bus stop over the road for a smoke.

[AtW]

Victim of the no tobacco on campus policy.

But weed isn't tobacco?

[Old Greg]

But weed isn't tobacco?

An important distinction, as BR14 weed himself every week at the Day Centre before it was closed down.