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From: kolding@ji.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Koldinger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computer noises (was Re: Cray architecture)
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Date: 2 Apr 88 05:51:15 GMT
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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.
>Does anyone know whether such a program existed? Whether it was feasible?
>I believe the machine had core memory, would that have helped?

I definitely heard a machine play music on a radio once.  It was an IBM
machine, probably a S/370 of some sort (Ok, so I'm not even sure it was
IBM, but it was blue).  It was back in the mid- to late-70's.  I was given
a tour of a computer center, got to type my name on a punch card and get
it printed out, and got to hear a computer broadcast a piece of classical
music.  Wish I could remember the piece.........


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