{"id":5662,"date":"2011-03-29T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T11:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2011-03-22T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:53:52","slug":"toccata-and-fugue-in-d-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5662","title":{"rendered":"Toccata and Fugue in D: Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for computer hobbyists to use vintage floppy drives* for uses other than they were originally intended.  George Whiteside has connected four drives to a micocontroller and uses them in a rendition of &#8220;Phantom of the Floppera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dmoDLyiQYKw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dmoDLyiQYKw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of thing geeks do to amuse ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/\">Neatorama<\/a>)<\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*As someone who learned to program on a Commodore 64, I would like to register an audible wince at the concept of floppy drives being veritable antiques.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/\">The Art of Darkness<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for computer hobbyists to use vintage floppy drives* for uses other than they were originally intended. George Whiteside has connected four drives to a micocontroller and uses them in a rendition of &#8220;Phantom of the Floppera.&#8221; This is the kind of thing geeks do to amuse ourselves. (via Neatorama) *As someone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}