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My Epson Equity 3 (IBM clone) at work makes little noises when doing processing.
The noises are not coming from the speaker or the monitor, and when I adjust the
CPU speed switch, the sounds speed up and slow down.  They are usually scratchy
sounding, but under certain circumstances it whines or hums.  Perhaps a ceramic
capacitor or resonator is piezo-ing...just a guess.

Yesterday, it finally happened.  I was doing some serious crunching with a
very non-serious cruncher (dbase), when it actually seemed to be making
musical notes -- at random, but vaguely sing-song sounding, like in the old
science fiction movies.

After a few minutes of feeling "awwww, that's so CUTE!!" (like seeing a
little birdie or something), I thought that there might be some historical
basis for the 'bloop beep bleep' sounds used to suggest 'computing' in old
science fiction films.

I seem to remember hearing of a computer that was made to play Greensleves,
as a side effect of going other processing.  Did the noise use to come from
nearby AM radios?  The circuitry itself?

Anyway, I just had to share this!  If you have an Equity 3, start listening
closely when it's crunching.  This is real.

					David