Re: musical processing

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From: he... Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 17:17

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In article <16...@yenta.alb.nm.us> d...@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
>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.

Changes in power demand can make switching power supplies make noises.
Iris workstations are notorious for this.
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