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From: rober@weitek.UUCP (Don Rober)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computer noises (was Re: Cray architecture)
Message-ID: <8890@weitek.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 23:37:22 GMT
References: <7762@alice.UUCP> <418@ole.UUCP> <3216@phri.UUCP> <1574@osiris.UUCP> <769@kaos.UUCP> <1503@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: rober@weitek.UUCP (Don Rober)
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In article <1503@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:
>I have a vague recollection back from when I was a first-year student
>(1974) of someone demonstrating a program for the PDP-8 that played a quite
>good rendition of some piece of music on a radio placed beside the 
>CPU. In retrospect, this seems moderately unlikely, though not impossible.

We wrote some music using FOCAL on a PDP-8I (1971, 4K core memory, cheap AM 
transistor radio). It only lasted 2 or 3 seconds, but it did work.

>.............. Then again, the machine did have a disk...
                                                   ^^^^
Wow, we only had paper tape!

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