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Article #635Re: PDP-8 hate (musical computers)
From: p... Per Lindberg
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 18:05
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 18:05
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In article <1990Jan8.2...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk>
tee...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) writes:
>The ICL 2900 series also came with speakers attached to the bus...
> ...
>Different programs had quite distinctive noises, as did tight loops...
Some of the users of the DATASAAB D21 at LYSATOR were quite proficient
at using the speaker as a diagnotics tool.
<crackle> <cracle> <crackle> "Aha, it's compiling"...
<rackarackarackarackaracka> "Linking"...
<snap> <crackle> <pop> "OK, running"...
Reminds me of the Good Old BASIC Manual for the Apple ][ by Jef Raskin:
"If you can determine what's on a tape by listening to it, you are a
mutant, and will go far in the computer world"
Ahh, those were the times...
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Per Lindberg (The Mad Programmer) ! __!__
Front Capital Systems ! _____(_)_____ Ceci n'est pas un 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 (musical computers) Message-ID: <951@front.se> Date: 11 Jan 90 18:05:25 GMT References: <129595@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3963@brazos.Rice.edu> <2787@client1.DRETOR.UUCP> <673@ehvie0.tq.ine.philips.nl> <948@front.se> <1990Jan8.202144.12494@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> Organization: Front Capital Systems, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 25 Posted: Thu Jan 11 19:05:25 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit