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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More 1130/1403 stuff
Message-ID: <1400@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 13:33:05 EST
Article-I.D.: tekcrl.1400
Posted: Fri Feb 13 13:33:05 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Feb-87 00:27:03 EST
References: <2319@sunybcs.UUCP> <1596@kitty.UUCP>
Reply-To: terryl@tekcrl.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
Lines: 23
Keywords: early computers, trivia, humor

In article <1596@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>In article <2319@sunybcs.UUCP>, kumard@sunybcs.UUCP (Deepak Kumar) writes:
>> 	4. Someone got hold of this FORTRAN program that printed a lot
>> 	   of garbage for a minute. The sounds the printer made were
>> 	   the exact notes of the Indian National Anthem! After the
>> 	   third run, the printer chain gave up.
>
>	An IBM CE gave me an Autocoder program that ran on the 1401 and
>played the U.S. national anthem.  It always amazed me how someone had
>the _time_ to determine the character sequences required to generate
>specific musical notes, and then put it all together in the proper
>rhythm for a song!

     [ Gee, I hope I'm not showing my age by saying my first computer
interaction was with an 1130 with a 026 keypunch(-;!!!!]

     Back in my undergraduate days, I knew someone who had written a
program that, if one put an AM radio on the 1130 console, would play
electronic music through the radio from the RF generated by th3 1130.
Very impressive (at the time, anyway). This would only work if the
1130 was in a room by itself, so the radio would only pick up the RF
from the 1130. This acquainance had actually transcribed about 20-30
songs, and punched them into cards for the data input into the program.