Andrew C. Bulhak buys a drum machine program. He uses it for years. He discovers his stuff is stuck inside it and he can’t get it out. What does he do? Reverse engineers it, of course. (Slides from Dorkbot talk.) Possibly the obscure format is commercial secrecy, but more likely (as is usual in these cases) it’s just appropriate shame. Binary-coded centimal?

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