Boot Disk Piped to /dev/audio

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And tape recorded (DAT of course).

Then set your boot device to your microphone and watch the fun!!

 

[jnuts]

I bet that sounds like Yoko Ono singing.

 

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I bet that sounds like Yoko Ono singing.

It sounds lovely.
And it's fun to watch a machine try to boot from it!

I have debian, red hat and suse.... all the great oldies!!


As a side note, I was piping some text to /dev/audio at work, to annoy the fuck out of others. My boss heard it, asked what it was and when I told him he honestly asked, "Would we be able to back up data using that??"

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

One of my comp sci profs had some funny stories from back in the day (not as far back as when my grandfather was at IBM, but still before PCs).

They would take the short boot loop of tape and cut it off of its loop and tie it to a keychain loop.
Then they would feed it through and zipcord yank it the same way you would a lawnmower and it would boot the machine.

Another time, they noticed that the hard drive would make various clear tones with certain drive accesses. Resonant frequencies with where it was spinning and then the read head on it and the shaking of the machine all combined to make what was a discernible note.
So they would actually write programs that didn't do anything but manipulate the drive to move about to the various areas to produce tones and they would then reproduce songs that way (this was on the punch card system... very slow).

They had far too much time.

 

[Dial_tone]

It sounds lovely.
And it's fun to watch a machine try to boot from it!

I have debian, red hat and suse.... all the great oldies!!


As a side note, I was piping some text to /dev/audio at work, to annoy the fuck out of others. My boss heard it, asked what it was and when I told him he honestly asked, "Would we be able to back up data using that??"

You need some alternative tunes like FreeBSD & Gentoo.