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Booting from a vinyl record

Quality: 7/10 Relevance: 5/10

Summary

A quirky retro-tech experiment demonstrates booting an IBM PC from a vinyl record via a ROM-stored vinyl bootloader that interfaces with the cassette port. The approach uses a RAM-disk image, a modified FreeDOS kernel, and BIOS-level tricks, with downloadable boot artifacts and historical context.

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