3 Mar
2017
3 Mar
'17
12:50 a.m.
Charles,
Then you are the one that asked for the permission to use the sound of my "Golf Ball
Madness" Selectric video (shameless plug: https://youtu.be/vOIPN70f_-Id ). A) go
right ahead and B) turns out I have a high end recording studio installation at home. I
can record clean high quality samples for you, just contact me off list for exactly what
you need.
Talking about old computer sounds, for the story, you'll be happy to know that the
punched card reader sounds used in Hidden Figures are from "our" IBM 1402 at
CHM, recorded from... a cell phone.
Marc
On Mar 1, 2017, at 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
Multics installations (and other systems) the sound of the Selectric
operator's console.
I/O Selectrics are rare, expensive and unreliable.
If some good quality audio clips of a Selectric were available, it should
be possible to jimmy up the console terminal emulator to make the sounds.
So I am fishing for any existing audio clips with clean sounds, or someone
with a Selectric that is willing to make some recordings, or a pointer to
somewhere where all of this has been done already.
-- Charles