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Booting from a vinyl record
(boginjr.com)
There's a joke here somewhere about how you should master your boot record
I heard he tried to boot from the white album but there were some bugs in it.
The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine
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.
Nah, the data just sounds better on vinyl. Especially if you use valves instead of silicon transistors.
I heard if you play the record backwards it boots you into Windows ME.
If you don't use 1000 eur gold plated RCAs, it just doesn't sound right...
I wish I had the kind of time and money required for effing around like this.
Knowledge saves time, this dude is probably a good hardware engineer already
Edit: don't see the problem anymore.
Maybe your system clock is out of sync? And it's from 2020/2022.
I can open it without problems
I had the same problem
Seems ripe for a Grandmaster Flash remix.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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