Datastrip Code
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* [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://archive.org/details/CauzinSoftstrip Cauzin Softstrip Application Notes & Marketing Material] (1986), at the Internet Archive. |
| + | * [https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-115-bob-brass-and-peter-damato-cauzin-softstrip ANTIC Interview 115] - Atari podcast interviews Cauzin staffers Bob Brass and Peter D’Amato (Oct 2015). | ||
| + | * [https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/265/encoding-software-in-barcodes-the-eight-bit-magazine-way 2016 blog post] by "FozzTexx" (Chris Osborn) 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) | ** [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) | ||
| + | ** [https://sowerbutts.com/cauzcoin/ Description] of decoding a freshly-generated Softstrip as part of a challenge (Will Sowerbutts, Sep 2016). Includes a Python decoder (not fully general). | ||
| + | * [https://stl.htwsaar.de/tr/STL-TR-2018-03.pdf Reverse Engineering The Cauzin Softstrip.] Michael Reimsbach, MSc thesis at Michael Reimsbach. Technical Report – STL-TR-2018-03 (series ISSN 2364-7167). October 2018. | ||
| + | ** Describes the Softstrip format in detail, and differences from the later Datastrip format. Points to a corpus of examples (contempory and modern). Describes Softstrip decoder software (not published?). | ||
* [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-021-09358-z Decoding the Cauzin Softstrip: a case study in extracting information from old media.] Reimsbach, M., Aycock, J. Arch Sci 21, 281–294 (2021). | * [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-021-09358-z Decoding the Cauzin Softstrip: a case study in extracting information from old media.] Reimsbach, M., Aycock, J. Arch Sci 21, 281–294 (2021). | ||
Revision as of 03:28, 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
- Cauzin Softstrip Application Notes & Marketing Material (1986), at the Internet Archive.
- ANTIC Interview 115 - Atari podcast interviews Cauzin staffers Bob Brass and Peter D’Amato (Oct 2015).
- 2016 blog post by "FozzTexx" (Chris Osborn) reverse-engineering some details
- Distripitor, a 2016 barcode generator (in Objective-C; apparently depends on ClearLake and Makefiles from the same author to build)
- Description of decoding a freshly-generated Softstrip as part of a challenge (Will Sowerbutts, Sep 2016). Includes a Python decoder (not fully general).
- Reverse Engineering The Cauzin Softstrip. Michael Reimsbach, MSc thesis at Michael Reimsbach. Technical Report – STL-TR-2018-03 (series ISSN 2364-7167). October 2018.
- Describes the Softstrip format in detail, and differences from the later Datastrip format. Points to a corpus of examples (contempory and modern). Describes Softstrip decoder software (not published?).
- Decoding the Cauzin Softstrip: a case study in extracting information from old media. Reimsbach, M., Aycock, J. Arch Sci 21, 281–294 (2021).
