What are you looking for ?
Infinidat
Articles_top

History (1977): Floppy ROM

Flexi-disc vinyl record with computer code in audio form

This article was published by the Museum of Obsolete Media.

Floppy ROM (1977-mid 1980s)

A floppy ROM is a flexi-disc vinyl record with computer code in audio form.

The first floppy ROM was published in the May 1977 issue of Interface Age and took the form of a 33 1/3rpm flexi-disc with 6 minutes of ‘Kansas City’ standard computer code.

It was recommend that the audio be recorded onto a cassette and then played back to load the program.

Although never common, the floppy ROM was used into the 1980s to distribute software through some computer magazines.

Articles_bottom
AIC
ATTO
OPEN-E