Unusual media ideas (was RE: Vinyl Data- Classic Computers / Indie

[Tony Duell]

> 
> I also recall one of the magazines from the early days championing 
> computer-readable strips printed in the magazine, similar to a UPC code 
> but obviously much longer.  Byte?  Kilobaud?  It's not coming up from 
> long-term archive.... 

There was a barcode reader 'wand' for the HP41 calculator, and later  
tHP41 'solution books' (compilations of user-submitted programs came 
with barcodes for all the programs in that book so you could scan them in 
rather than typing them.

-tony