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>(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.
sure will...
>
>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...

The ICL 2900 series also came with speakers attached to the bus, and demo
tunes on the engineers disk. The speaker was _very_ useful to us ops.
You could tell _immediately_ you had blundered, and crashed the thing.
Different programs had quite distinctive noises, as did tight loops in
interactive programs, and nothing, not even hitting The Power Switch,
at Christmas, could match the eerie silence when the processor hung.
(relative silence that is).

Nothing as good as using the line printer for rhythm though (sigh).

(You can still use radios to listen to PCs bTW)

ps as a new reader to this group, its t the funniest i've found (better even
than rhf). The story about tennis in the machine room brought back fond
memories...
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