Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jun 27 10:46:15 CDT 2019


On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:42 AM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

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> On 6/27/19 8:21 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> > I saw this
> > half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it was for.
>
> http://qicreader.blogspot.com/p/track-visualization.html
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> shows a couple of them
>

Yea, the plastiform magnetic viewer was the thing that I saw. Nice article,
including pictures of the bits on a credit card...

Warner


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