

The duo wants a 300 GB capacity disk by 2015



Source: Sony

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RE: How cute
By retrospooty on 7/29/2013 12:53:41 PM , Rating: 3
LOL... OK, but I wouldn't really classify old vinyl records as "software" and I certainly wouldn't call your use anything other than "niche" at this point.

RE: How cute
By Fritzr on 7/31/2013 12:36:29 AM , Rating: 2
Digital software stored on a vinyl LP is most definitely digital storage.

It is not the storage medium, it IS the way the data is written and read. Analog sound recording equipment has been used for digital storage for as long as there has been digital storage.

Examples from the 1980s

The C2N datasette from Commodore. It was an analog cassette recorder with a digital interface to the Commodore computer tied to the microphone input. This direct connection to the I/O pin on the CPU avoided the problem of sound levels encountered by the computers that used the standard microphone jack for output to the recorder and the earphone jack for input to the recorder.

The Sinclair computers (ZX-8x TS-1x00 among them) used an off the shelf analog recorder (cassette or reel-to-reel were most commonly used) and the digital signal was recorded as analog audio of hi & lo frequency sound.

These and other computers that were able to use analog cassette tapes could also receive broadcast recordings and correctly load them. You just connected the data input to the radio speaker or recorded the broadcast on tape (cassette or reel). Several broadcasters around the world offered these as ordinary consumer broadcasts for popular computer models. This method of data transmission is still used in the SW community.

