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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Old computer noises
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 17:28:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 17:28:14 1985
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> What about NEW computer noises??  I'm working on an Apollo DN300 node
> even as we speak -- I love it dearly, but the power supply is quite
> astounding in the noises it produces.  Nothing quite like recognizable
> speech (THAT would be something).  However, when I'm doing CPU-intensive
> stuff like number-crunching, it makes sounds almost like tropical birds...
> 			Nathan Price
> 	"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
> 		Hoist with his own petard."

Unfortunately we have lost the tradition of including a "hooter" -- a
speaker -- on the arithmentic unit of a computer, more's the pity.  Years
ago at the Rand Corp. there was a demonstration of a pair of computers
with hooters -- the demo played "Aloha" in stereo, and a hula dancer on
the display kept time (more or less).  Rumor had it if you caught her
in the navel with the light pen her grass skirt fell off, but the pen was
not connected at the time ... probably apochryphal anyway.  All of the
code was written, of course, in assembly language.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronony Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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