9 Dec
2001
9 Dec
'01
10:48 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:44:52AM -0500, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
"Fool on the Hill"?
_Hackers_ by Steven Levy describes how Steve Dompier wrote a music
program for the Altair and transcribed "Fool on the Hill" and
"Daisy".
When he actually wanted to demonstrate it, he had to find an extension
cord (the only good outlet was one floor down). Then two kids tripped
over the extension cord, so he had to toggle in his program twice.
"Daisy" was the unadvertised "encore" in the demo... it was also
played
and sung by Bell Labs' IBM 7094 in 1961 (not to mention HAL). See
http://www.vortex.com/av.html#DAISY
_Hackers_ gives the date as 1957 but that seems to be wrong (unless Bell
Labs did the music separately from the singing).
-- Derek
If I remember
correctly, there was a machine code program
printed once to play "music" with a ZX80 using this method!
Older. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Issue #2... 8080 code, played
Daisy and something else, modulating the S-100 INT signal.