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From: richard@gryphon.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now...IBM 1130 nostalgia
Message-ID: <768@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 22:51:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.768
Posted: Sun Jun 21 22:51:37 1987
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References: <1240@ssc-vax.UUCP> <631@mapper.UUCP> <3268@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> <163@buengc.BU.EDU> <820@newton.praxis.co.uk>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: Talking IBM 1130s
Xref: utgpu talk.bizarre:2131 comp.misc:644

In article <820@newton.praxis.co.uk> tv@praxis.co.uk (Tony Voss) writes:
>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 too ? The 1130 was my first computer. Size of a big fridge and 8K. We
also found that our AM radios picked up signals from the computer, and
eventually made some decks that would play songs. So ours didn't so much talk,
as sing.

Butm todays technology being what it is, my Amiga 'sings' to my cordless
phone. No cordless MIDI jokes please.

Damn annoying sometimes.

-- 
Richard Sexton
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