Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has the exciting news that Apple I BASIC has been extracted from an audio cassette and converted to MP3. It's actually got a pretty good beat. They very first piece of commercial Apple software ? a primordial flavor of BASIC originally released in 1976 that took thirty seconds to load ? has been perfectly and authoritatively extracted from a yellowing audio tape and converted into a 38 second MP3, playable in iTunes. Plucky, hyper-intelligent beardos are now dissecting the file and learning its secrets, but their findings are a bit above my head. Link, Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets...

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