Cauzin Softstrip

<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2>
<p>"The system works beautifully", David Tebbutt of <i><a href="/facts/Personal_Computer_World/FSjYgVHS">Personal Computer World</a></i> wrote in January 1987, "but, at the UK price of £200, I'm having a devil of a job deciding who could justify the price". He concluded that until a compelling business use appeared for it, Softstrip was "'all dressed up, with nowhere to go'".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/QR_codes/B0l0IS7a">QR codes</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Reimsbach, Michael; Aycock, John (February 25, 2021). <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8591774">"Decoding the Cauzin Softstrip: a case study in extracting information from old media"</a>. <i>Archival Science</i>. 21 (3). <a href="/facts/Springer_Science%252BBusiness_Media/nAesf6nT">Springer Science+Business Media</a> LLC: 281–294. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10502-021-09358-z">10.1007/s10502-021-09358-z</a>. <a href="/facts/ISSN_(identifier)/DPAflDvU">ISSN</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1389-0166">1389-0166</a>. <a href="/facts/PMC_(identifier)/dX1zMt71">PMC</a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8591774">8591774</a>. <a href="/facts/PMID_(identifier)/JlHAvMHt">PMID</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34803479">34803479</a>.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://rich12345.tripod.com/museum2/softstrip.html">Photos of a Cauzin Softstrip Reader</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/carny">Brief history of the Softstrip format</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/265/encoding-software-in-barcodes-the-eight-bit-magazine-way">Investigation and reproduction of the format in modern times</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stl.htwsaar.de/tr/STL-TR-2018-03.pdf">Reverse Engineering The Cauzin Softstrip</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Judith_Hann/GlKLkK73">Hann, Judith</a> (6 November 1986). <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100072448092464/posts/pfbid0qtnpNRJhNo4ocb9P2me5GyGkFLUfz6H65n49vdmvtvpCKaZ6uLuq2N8GEMmLn12pl"><i>This odd looking strip could revolutionise the way we distribute computer data</i></a>. <i><a href="/facts/Tomorrow%2527s_World/to3V3HYF">Tomorrow's World</a></i>. BBC Archive.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Sandberg-Diment, Erik (October 15, 1985). "Personal Computers; Supermarket Bar Codes Are Applied to Software". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2022. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/15/science/personal-computers-supermarket-bar-codes-are-applied-to-software.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/15/science/personal-computers-supermarket-bar-codes-are-applied-to-software.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>U.S. patent 4,728,783 on the format <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4728783" target="_blank">https://patents.google.com/patent/US4728783</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Re: After the scanner, the newspaper ???". static7.userland.com. October 5, 1998. Retrieved March 6, 2022. <a href="http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg016921.html" target="_blank">http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg016921.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Tebbutt, David (January 1987). "Cauzin's Softstrip" (PDF). Personal Computer World. pp. 176–177. Retrieved 2024-10-08. <a href="https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Personal-Computer-World/80s/PCW-1987-01-S-OCR.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Personal-Computer-World/80s/PCW-1987-01-S-OCR.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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