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From: mcg... Tim McGuire
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 1990 19:25

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In article <16...@yenta.alb.nm.us> d...@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
>My Epson Equity 3 at work makes little noises when doing processing.
>
>I seem to remember hearing of a computer that was made to play Greensleves,
>as a side effect of going other processing.  Did the noise use to come from
>nearby AM radios?  The circuitry itself?

Back around 1976, when I was a student at LeTourneau College, we had an 
ancient (even for those days) IBM 1130.  One of the lab assistants, Harvey
Block (are you out there Harv?), got the bright idea of hooking a signal 
tracer to the least significant bit of the accumulator extension (well, 
actually the panel light for it.)  The result was a lot of interesting
noises whenever the machine was processing.  A couple days later, I went
down to the lab; Harvey caught me at the door and said "Watch this!".
The room was full of beginning FORTRAN students struggling with their 
programs.  Harvey quickly turned on the signal tracer, started his program,
and stood back as the computer played a very credible rendition of "Popcorn".
Needless to say, all other activity in the room ceased for a while.

Tim McGuire
mcg...@cs.tamu.edu

Anyone else have any good music stories, or adventures with the ol' 1130?

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