From: utzoo!decvax!duke!bcw
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: RFI & Terminals
Article-I.D.: duke.2734
Posted: Wed Nov  3 18:26:56 1982
Received: Fri Nov  5 00:50:24 1982
References: ihnet.102

From:	Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University
Re:	Computer music

I've heard of several things like this done;  on the Sigma V which we used
to have at the Duke Medical Center, there was a programmable audio alarm
which was used by someone (I think from the user's group, it wasn't locally)
to write "music" - it too had something of a "music compiler" which was
based on the macro assembler.  The only thing I remember for it was a medley
of popular tunes which ran for maybe 10 minutes.  Some of the people at XDS
reportedly tied the audio alarm to the crash routine in the system to produce
"a 20-second descending whistle," but unfortunately I never heard or saw that
one except by reputation.

Also, there was a program on one of the old IBM-1130 computers which would
use the line printer (printing lines of different characters which had a
different pitch for each type of character) which played "Anchors Aweigh"
(I think it was written locally by one of the computer freak types who may
be listening in on this - I don't think I'll embarrass him by giving names).

			Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University