Documents, code, and an emulation related to the functioning of the Mac diskette containing William Gibson’s poem in Agrippa. The diskette contained a custom-built program that rendered the poem as black text on white background scrolling up the screen at an unstoppable pace, and also a custom-built encryption program that then made the poem “disappear” after it had been seen once. In these documents, the programmer’s name and signature have been blacked out due to his wish (according to Agrippa’s publisher) to remain anonymous.
- Created by the Transcriptions Project, UC Santa Barbara
- Agrippa
- Deluxe Edition (6)
- Small Edition (2)
- The Poem (1)
- Prototypes (2)
- Additional Photos (6)
- Emulations
- The Poem Running in Emulation (3)
- Fading Ink Simulation (1)
- Bibliographic Specs (4)
- Archival Documents
- Letters (11)
- Press Releases (5)
- Exhibitions (8)
- Net Talk, 1992 (3)
- "The Transmission" (8)
- The Disk and Its Code (17)
- The "Hack" (4)
- The DNA Code (1)
- Source Images (7)
- Misc (2)
- Commentary
on Agrippa
- Essays & Interviews (4)
- Discussion Forum (1)
- Annotated Bibliography
- Interviews (4)
- Press Notices (8)
- Reviews (26)
- Scholarly Writings (23)
- Image & Video Resources (8)
- Biographies (10)
- Misc (4)
- Untraced Works (2)
- Study Tools
- Item Inventory (2)
- Virtual Lightbox (1)
- Developers
- Kirschenbaum, Matthew G., with Doug Reside and Alan Liu. “No Round Trip: Two New Primary Sources for Agrippa
- The Beginning of “Agrippa” the Poem
- The Poem Running in Emulation
- Agrippa »Emulations
- A “Run” of William Gibson’s “Agrippa” Poem from a Copy of Original 1992 Agrippa Diskette
- Disk Image (Bit-level Copy) of Agrippa Diskette Created from Original 1992 diskette
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