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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 10 Feb 89 04:50:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: werme@Alliant.COM's message of 8 Feb 89 05:42:05 GMT

In article <2967@alliant.Alliant.COM> werme@Alliant.COM (Ric Werme) writes:
> [ stuff about making printers play music ]
>  Next I arranged "A Bicycle Built for Two", since that
>was the first song a computer ever played (you've heard it in the movie 2001).

  In 1951 or so, Christopher Strachey wrote a program to play "God
Save The King" on the Manchester computer....

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| Anton Rang (grad student) | "UNIX: blecch."        | "Do worry...be SAD!" |
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