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From: jkl@csli.STANFORD.EDU (John Kallen)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <7449@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 6 Feb 89 20:28:20 GMT
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Reply-To: jkl@csli.UUCP (John Kallen)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <1000@taux01.UUCP> taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>1) Back when core memory was in use one could "listen" to the memory with a
>   transistor radio.  A game amung system programmers was to access memory
>   in such a manner as to produce recognizeble tunes on the radio.

I recall being shown a PDP-8 in Uppsala University two years ago. It
had a program that would perform memory accesses so as to generate
noise that could be picked up by an AM radio. I was most amazed to
hear a *polyhonic* version of "The Entertainer" come from a PDP-8 :-)

John.
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