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Article #633Re: PDP-8 hate
From: p... Per Lindberg
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 23:54
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 23:54
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In article <6...@ehvie0.tq.ine.philips.nl> huls...@tq.ine.philips.nl (Rob Hulsebos) writes about song playing on a PDP-8 using an AM radio. So, we've come to the musical department in our "hangar flying" newsgroup. Guess there will be lots of entries about this. The old swedish DATASAAB D21 from SAAB (60's, transistors...) had a speaker on the console connected to some bit on the bus. One of the last machines of this kind was run by the LYSATOR computer club at Linkoping University, Sweden. It had a program named QUANTAM, which plaued "Quantanamera" on the speaker, and used the line printer (or was it the eight 1-inch tape stations?) for rythm section... -- Per Lindberg (The Mad Programmer) ! __!__ Front Capital Systems ! _____(_)_____ Ceci n'est pas une Piper Linneg 5, 11447 Stockholm, Sweden ! ! ! !
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!front.se!per From: p...@front.se (Per Lindberg) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: PDP-8 hate Keywords: pdp-8 Message-ID: <948@front.se> Date: 7 Jan 90 23:54:51 GMT References: <129595@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3963@brazos.Rice.edu> <2787@client1.DRETOR.UUCP> <673@ehvie0.tq.ine.philips.nl> Organization: Front Capital Systems, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 17 Posted: Mon Jan 8 00:54:51 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit