Re: TRS-80/PDP-8 radio fun

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From: Gary Piatt
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 17:11

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Mark Mandel writes:
=>Back in the early 60s some hackers at MIT wrote programs to do this.
=>Bach's g minor fugue from "The Well-Tempered Clavier", and the pop
=>song "Downtown".  I still have them.

I developed a strong liking for jazz from working with a PDP-8.   The
local jazz station was the only one that the computer didn't interfere
with.  Occassionally, just for fun, I would flip to another station to
hear what my program was doing.
				-Garison-

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From: garison@mirror.UUCP (Gary Piatt)
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Subject: Re: TRS-80/PDP-8 radio fun
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Date: 18 Dec 89 17:11:57 GMT
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