Okay, that is very cool. I love how doable it is too if you can get hands on the media that is.

Old scanners where SCSI, which made me wonder if you could use them as boot devices, if you could stuff the scanner driver and OCR software into the BIOS. Might be easier now that we have uEFI.

Sure, because why not!

Cool idea.

The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg

It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.

    yt-dlp https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg -o - | mpv -

Nice little project.

Back in day, magazines distributed software on flexidisc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc) I remember it being very unreliable. The magazine instructed you to copy the flexidisc to a cassette tape first as you could only usually play the disc one or two times.

In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...

> built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used)

Wait a minute, what?? How did I not know about this.