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    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.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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    KUATB

    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    • 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?”

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      #3
      Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
      KUATB

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

      As always Nick you are ahead of me.
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        #4
        My last client stored their standard PC build in an interpretive dance.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
          My last client stored their standard PC build in an interpretive dance.
          That’s very BASIC

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            #6
            Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
            My last client stored their standard PC build in an interpretive dance.

            They ran out of fag packets?
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              #7
              Originally posted by vetran View Post
              They ran out of fag packets?
              Victim of the no tobacco on campus policy.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
                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.
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
                  Victim of the no tobacco on campus policy.
                  But weed isn't tobacco?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by AtW View Post
                    But weed isn't tobacco?
                    An important distinction, as BR14 weed himself every week at the Day Centre before it was closed down.

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