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This was tried by a few computer hobby magazines in the early 80's. A thin square of plastic called a flexi-disc with the program on it came inserted in the pages and you'd tear it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc

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Keyboard magazine included one every month for several years! I remember one was actually printed backwards somehow. (That is the audio on it was backwards, so it sounded like putting the needle on the record and manually spinning it backwards by hand.) If I recall, they corrected it the next month.

I own an old guitar primer book that includes one of these flexi-discs, with the edges clearly cut with scissors a long time ago. Still haven't tried it yet, but maybe I'll pop it in tonight.

Ha yeah and even music samplers came like that occasionally in magazines. In fact when I saw the headline to the thread I thought "Oh someone discovered a Todd Rundgren Easter egg."

EDIT: I just checked the article. It was an Easter egg from a music group, but not Todd Rundgren.

I'm old enough to remember when the back of a cereal box had a record imprinted on it. You cut it out and played it on a record player.

Oh man I forgot about that.

Anybody remember when McDonald’s did a promotion with a flexible record in the sunday newspaper for their menu song?

https://news.avclub.com/in-1988-mcdonald-s-released-a-madden...

Haha I don't remember that. It must not have gotten much traction in Charlottesville.

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