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Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
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? 64 512 byte DOS boot disk on a 10″ record, total playing time 06:10 on 45 rpm Update February 2022: Click here to observe the very same vinyl ramdisk booted on an IBM PCjr! So this nutty little experiment connects a PC, or an IBM PC to be exact, directly onto a record player through an amplifier. I made a small ROM on-chip boot loader that operates the built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used), which will now be invoked by the BIOS if all the other boot options fail, i.e.
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