Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Computer noises (was Re: Cray architecture) Message-ID: <10202@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 1 Apr 88 17:40:32 GMT References: <7762@alice.UUCP> <418@ole.UUCP> <3216@phri.UUCP> <1574@osiris.UUCP> <1503@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <583@auvax.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In article <583@auvax.UUCP> rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander) writes: | better encoding and also more than one voice; three voices is doable | but tricky. You can also do a light show in the accumulator display | while you're at it - this is really impressive. When I let people visit my office at home, they are not impressed by the MS-DOS machine with fancy graphics, nor the UNIX box with 2-4 remote user, they are blown away by my first (home) computer, a "war games" model IMSAI, with hundreds of blinking lights and switches (I have LEDs on the bankselected memory cards, too). -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me