Datastrip Code
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
(Difference between revisions)
Dan Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=physical |subcat=Bar codes |image=Datastrip.gif |released=1985 }} '''Datastrip Code''', originally Softstrip, is reportedly the first 2D bar code sym...") |
(add some more links, including a generator) |
||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
* [http://www.google.com/patents/US4728783 US Patent 4,728,783] | * [http://www.google.com/patents/US4728783 US Patent 4,728,783] | ||
* [http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/15/science/personal-computers-supermarket-bar-codes-are-applied-to-software.html 1985 ''New York Times'' article] | * [http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/15/science/personal-computers-supermarket-bar-codes-are-applied-to-software.html 1985 ''New York Times'' article] | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/8000_Plus_Issue_015_1987-12_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n39/mode/1up 1987 review] (8000 Plus magazine, issue 15, December 1987, p40) - includes sample barcode | ||
| + | * [https://rich12345.tripod.com/museum2/softstrip.html Pictures of Softstrip hardware and sample barcode] | ||
* [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/datastrips-2d-bar-code-technology-helps-combat-terrorism-at-sea-exceeding-new-ilo-standards-for-seafarers-identity-documents-70884882.html Combating terrorism at sea with Datastrip (press release)] | * [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/datastrips-2d-bar-code-technology-helps-combat-terrorism-at-sea-exceeding-new-ilo-standards-for-seafarers-identity-documents-70884882.html Combating terrorism at sea with Datastrip (press release)] | ||
* [http://www.barcode.ro/tutorials/barcodes/datastrip.html Datastrip Code info] | * [http://www.barcode.ro/tutorials/barcodes/datastrip.html Datastrip Code info] | ||
| + | * [https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/265/encoding-software-in-barcodes-the-eight-bit-magazine-way 2016 blog post] by "FozzTexx" reverse-engineering some details | ||
| + | ** [https://github.com/FozzTexx/Distripitor Distripitor], a 2016 barcode generator (in Objective-C; apparently depends on [https://github.com/FozzTexx/ClearLake ClearLake] and [https://github.com/FozzTexx/Makefiles Makefiles] from the same author to build) | ||
Revision as of 01:59, 24 November 2022
Datastrip Code, originally Softstrip, is reportedly the first 2D bar code symbology, released in 1985. (But the comedy book, The 80s: A Look Back, published in 1979, had fake 2D bar codes in it.) The intended purpose was as a way for magazines to publish computer-readable data, such as program listings (which, in those days, were commonly printed in computer magazines such that the user would have to type them in).
Links
- Wikipedia article (under the title Cauzin Softstrip)
- US Patent 4,728,783
- 1985 New York Times article
- 1987 review (8000 Plus magazine, issue 15, December 1987, p40) - includes sample barcode
- Pictures of Softstrip hardware and sample barcode
- Combating terrorism at sea with Datastrip (press release)
- Datastrip Code info
- 2016 blog post by "FozzTexx" reverse-engineering some details
- Distripitor, a 2016 barcode generator (in Objective-C; apparently depends on ClearLake and Makefiles from the same author to build)
