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From: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More 1130/1403 stuff
Message-ID: <290@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 14:26:55 EST
Article-I.D.: dasys1.290
Posted: Sat Feb 21 14:26:55 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Feb-87 22:28:38 EST
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Reply-To: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
Lines: 19
Keywords: early computers, trivia, humor

>A DEC CE who (until about 1978) worked on a PDP-8 I used to use had an
>RX01 floppy full of programs which would play music on the beast.  You
>listened to the music by putting an AM radio near the backplane and
>tuning it to somewhere in the upper third (I believe) of the dial...
>Phil Kos                                          \


Before the FCC AM interference regulations were passed, you used to
be able to do this sort of thing with just about any machine.
I remember playing early TRS-80 games, like "Invasion Force",
and using a large AM radio placed near the machine to produce
appropriate sound effects.  In fact, TRS-80 programmers got so good
at producing the correct sound-creating loops that some of the later
games actually had VOICE effects!
-- 
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