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Subject: Re: What the world needs now
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Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 10:32:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 10:32:10 1987
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In article <163@buengc.BU.EDU> myers@buengc.BU.EDU (Eric Myers) writes:
>
>  Years ago I was running on an IBM 1130 at Willamette University in
>Oregon.  (Her name was Grendle.)  I remember .....

Ah! The IBM 1130! Stirs my memory too.
We used to have a program that turned all (well most) of the core store
on and off at a frequency that could be picked up on a medium wave radio.
You stood the radio on top of the processor and could pick up a tune.
The particular program I saw turned the keyboard into a sort of piano keyboard,
with the case shift providing a semi-tone shift.

A bit limited by today's electronic organ standards, but it kept the
night watch happy. Why 'watch' and not shift? Well this particular 1130
was built into a container and bolted to the deck of research ships.  
It worked well provided you didn't open the door just as a green one was
washing down the deck :-(