Booting from a vinyl record

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/

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9point6@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 223d

There's a joke here somewhere about how you should master your boot record

itsathursday@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 223d (1 reply)

I heard he tried to boot from the white album but there were some bugs in it.

davidgro@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 223d

The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 9 pts · 223d (1 reply)

This should be a fun little detail in a movie or something like that, but booting is just loading data, and doing that from analog media is nothing new.

edit: tbf, the author points that out, too. It's just a little joke.

bryndos@fedia.io · 20 pts · 223d

Nah, the data just sounds better on vinyl. Especially if you use valves instead of silicon transistors.

rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d

I heard if you play the record backwards it boots you into Windows ME.

tserts@lemmy.tserts.com · 7 pts · 223d

If you don't use 1000 eur gold plated RCAs, it just doesn't sound right...

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 223d (1 reply)

I wish I had the kind of time and money required for effing around like this.

kalpol@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 223d

Knowledge saves time, this dude is probably a good hardware engineer already

black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 223d (3 replies)

Edit: don't see the problem anymore.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 223d

Maybe your system clock is out of sync? And it's from 2020/2022.

hakase@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 223d

I had the same problem

JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · 1 pts · 223d

I can open it without problems

jif@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 223d

Seems ripe for a Grandmaster Flash remix.