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From: curry@nsc.nsc.com (Ray Curry)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computer noises (was Re: Cray architecture)
Message-ID: <5029@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 1 Apr 88 18:00:59 GMT
References: <7762@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: curry@nsc.UUCP (Ray Curry)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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>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. 

I'll tell you how old I am.  When I started college, they were ripping out the
vacuum tube IBM 7xx.  The little computer (1620 I think) that was used to input
programs to the IBM had a combination of core and relays that would produce 
audible sound without the external radio.  Lots of programs existed around the
lab that would produce a variety of music when run.