From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!leichter
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: RFI & Terminals
Article-I.D.: yale-com.215
Posted: Wed Nov  3 18:22:18 1982
Received: Thu Nov  4 06:34:39 1982
References: teklabs.1507

Well, since all the old tales are coming out...back on the ol' IBM 1620, you
could generate reasonably clean notes on a nearby AM radio with carefully
built loops.  I heard a couple of "concerts" done this way.  It got pretty
popular at one point, and the SHARE catalogue for the 1620 listed a number
of "music compilers".  One of the most sophisticated, called something like
"Maestro", understood standard musical notation (in some "linearized" format)
including repeats.  It generated a program that played the music, accompanying
itself on the paper tape punch for percussion!

And then there was "printer music".  I only heard this once.  On some model
printer or other (IBM) a number of years back, with careful selection of
the stuff you were printing, you could get notes out of the rubbing of the
chain against the paper, or something.  Again, there were compilers.

'Twas impressive nor for the quality but that it was done at all!
						-- Jerry
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