CDC 3800 as sound generator

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From: mi... Mike Squires
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 04:53

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The CDC 3800 I worked on had a register hooked to am amp and a speaker
(never saw exactly how).  The sound told the operator what the system
was doing; when the system was waiting for operator intervention the
sound was exactly like the Star Trek Red Alert (although the CDC 3800
preceded the program).  The displays on the rather extensive system
console were also very similar to the Star Trek bridge.

When the 3800 was replaced by a much newer Burroughs the most interesting
problem was that the Burroughs was 30x slower executing numerically intensive
software.

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From: mi...@NCoast.ORG (Mike Squires)
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Subject: CDC 3800 as sound generator
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Date: 13 Dec 89 04:53:40 GMT
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