media what died a'bornin'

[Mike Ford]

At 11:17 AM 10/6/04 +1200, Don Hills wrote:
>Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
> >
> >I remember that! It was some bar code variant, I think the
> >code was some BASIC hack small enough to type in. I have no
> >recollection what the hardware was though. 1980s.
>
>Cauzin SoftStrip. Basically a 2-D barcode, read with a handheld scanner.


I have one of the readers, and curiously the format did NOT die, but moved 
to commercial applications like trade show badges.

I wonder if anybody ever reverse engineered the code so that softstrips 
could be read on a scanner?