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In article <97...@hubcap.clemson.edu>, chr...@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) writes:
> I have heard my father talk of such "songs" played by the printers on
> some comp. system.  Tiger Rag was the song he mentioned. 

  I remember an implementation of the "1812 Overture" for System/360. You
needed a 360/40, 2 2501 card readers, a 1442 punch, 4 2410 tape drives, a
1403 printer on a 2821 control unit and 2 table radios. The 2821 had to
have one of the interlocks disabled and a different pattern loaded into
it's control memory (core, of course 8-).

  I may have an audo recording of this (reel-to-reel) around somewhere. The
playing of this tune was grounds for immediate dismissal, as the interlock
you bypassed in the 2821 was the one that prevented *all* the 1403 hammers
from firing at once. This had the effect of destroying some of the output
transistors in the 2821 (but you got really *great* cannon shots from the
printer). Of course, you had to fabricate really creative excuses for the
IBM rep when he discovered that all 136 60-milliamp fuses in the 1403 were
blown. We generally said "Must have been a voltage surge from that really
bad thunderstorm yesterday".

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