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From: artm@phred.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More 1130/1403 stuff
Message-ID: <1079@phred.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 15:14:37 EST
Article-I.D.: phred.1079
Posted: Tue Feb 17 15:14:37 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Feb-87 03:40:50 EST
References: <2319@sunybcs.UUCP> <1596@kitty.UUCP> <1400@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: artm@phred.UUCP (Art "Faster! Faster!" Marriott)
Organization: Physio Control Corp., Seattle, WA
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In article <1400@tekcrl.TEK.COM> terryl@tekcrl.tek.com writes:
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>     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.

There actually used to be available from DECUS a program written in
assembler for the PDP9 (which could thus be hacked to run on the PDP15)
to cycle the console lights so that a radio placed nearby would play
some Bach piece in full four-part harmony.

And to think the folks playing with their micros with off-the-shelf
ployphonic synthesizer boards think they're doing something clever...

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                                               Art Marriott
                                               tikal!phred!artm
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My life isn't a soap opera.  It's a situation comedy.