Apple //e running source code loaded from an iPad

I thought it was pretty freakin' brilliant. I've digitized all of my vinyl LPs and audio cassettes (well, the ones I couldn't otherwise find MP3's of), but never thought of doing that with old data tapes. Now it's probably too late because they're likely deteriorated over time.

I do agree that using an iPad was a bit gratuitous, though.

dunno if its different across user agents but for me in chrome on mac its ogv not h264 and i cant even play it longer than 5 sec before it freezes up.

This video was originally done a long time ago, way before the iPad was out. The first time I watched Jed's Other Poem was on my brother's 1Gen iPhone (first time I played with an iPhone as well...). Back to my point, it appears the use of an iPad was not necessary except to drum up some media hype.

OMG!!! The iPad is a functional MP3 player. Stewart Smith's original work for the video was brilliant; the addition of the iPad is, well I can't think of a concise word, but some kind of anti-news.

What is amazing (for those of us that remember those days of loading data via tape) is it was never reliable at the best of times. The slightest glitch that would cause a tone variation (crinkle in the tape, heads need cleaning, etc) would cause a misinterpretation of the stored data and garbage being loaded in. Hell when using external tape players, a slight variation in the volume was enough to throw it, so much so that we used to mark where to set the volume wheel for accurate reads :-)

Whole cool, I'd hardly call it "amazing" or "magical." Why would it be amazing that the iPad can play audio? That's all the programs stored on tape were, after all-audio.

I find it ironic that they use an iPad for their little trick and post the movie in Flash so iPad users cannot watch.

cool

Very Cool