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Article #3484Re: Musical Printer.
From: chr... Chris Behrens
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 1990 21:53
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 1990 21:53
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In article <2...@news.nd.edu>, mah...@news.nd.edu (Mahesh Subramanya) writes: > managed to generate quite a few documents which would *play* some pretty > neat tunes on the printer. My favourite was the Indian national anthem > ( a rather atonal song, which was still quite distinctive). I also > distinctly remember being hauled on the carpet for doing that..... > I have heard my father talk of such "songs" played by the printers on some comp. system. Tiger Rag was the song he mentioned. How is this done ??? Is there some way to guess the particular sounds or pitches that will be made without hours and hours of trial and error and ribbon and paper ??? Just curious... Chris Behrens Chr...@Hubcap.Clemson.Edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!chrisb From: chr...@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Musical Printer. Message-ID: <9725@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 17 Jul 90 21:53:40 GMT References: <LOKI.90Jul16174640@marvin.moncam.uucp> <230@news.nd.edu> Distribution: alt Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC Lines: 17 Posted: Tue Jul 17 22:53:40 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit