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In article <10...@ucsd.Edu> br...@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
|Our CDC3600 (actually, an upgraded 1604 if I remember right) had a
|program that would play the Stars and Stripes Forever on it.  After
|booting a tape (this machine didn't have disks on it until much later),
|it would use the vacuum flapper valves in up to three tape drives as the
|drums, the line printer for a crash cymbal, and the console speaker
|(top three bits of the accumulator) as a fife.

I saw this on a CDC 3600 (or 3200?) ... this was the summer of 1965 in
Santa Barbara or Goleta or somewhere like that.  Actually the tape
drives did the Sousaphone or tuba part (I thought it was by varying
the lengthy of the records being written), and the line printer was
drums (like snares).  They also had the first demo I ever heard of
digitized voice; at least the same speaker played what sounded like a
chorus singing "America the Beautiful".

(Oh yes; I believe the 1604 was the front end to the 3600, a function
equivalent to the ubiquitous 1401s in 7070 or 7090 shops.)

	/JBL
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