{"id":6257,"date":"2013-12-10T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacebuttons.com\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2015-09-25T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T02:29:18","slug":"dress-pattern-apple-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacebuttons.com\/?p=6257","title":{"rendered":"The Automated Dress Pattern for the Apple II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lacebuttons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/floppy-rom-2-800px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6258\" src=\"http:\/\/lacebuttons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/floppy-rom-2-800px.jpg\" alt=\"floppy rom 2 800px\" width=\"640\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lacebuttons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/floppy-rom-2-800px.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lacebuttons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/floppy-rom-2-800px-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently I was looking at an old Interface Age magazine (Sept 1978, p. 76-81) and I ran across this gem. It&#8217;s a program on a vinyl record, called a Floppy Rom, that prints out McCalls sewing pattern 6066 for the dress pictured above in sizes 9-13. The program is designed to print out the pattern on a 132 character wide printer in multiple long strips that you tape together. The pattern is mapped as it was sized on the pattern sheets. There is no provision to dynamically adjust the pattern.<\/p>\n<p>For you geeks out there, a bit about the Floppy Rom. The Floppy Rom is a 33 1\/3 rpm vinyl record that is thin enough to be bound in a magazine. Usually these records held one song or some audio advertising but a technique was developed so that the vinyl record could store digital data in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City_standard\">Kansas City standard<\/a>, a format originally developed for audio cassette tapes.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link to see the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/lacebuttons.com\/TheAutomatedDressPattern.pdf\">The Automated Dress Pattern for the Apple II<\/a> by Wm. V. R. Smith III, (c) Artsci Publishing. It is reprinted here with permission of the author. You can follow Bill&#8217;s current company and learn a little more about how the pattern program was developed under the history section at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscipub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artsci Publishing<\/a>\u00a0and learn a little more about Bill on his web page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.net\/bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">William V. R. 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