30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
1:38 p.m.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
OT question: What was the first "singing"
computer peripheral ?
My guess is the IBM 1403 printer from 1959:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1403.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401#Art_inspired_by_the_IBM_1401
The Swedes played music with the Datasaab D21/D22 cpu in 1967.
Such activities were unauthorized, and frowned on by "management".
Because of that, they were extraordinarily poorly documented.
I was shocked to find NO hits in Google for "Friden Waltz"!
(Use quotation markse to reduce the false hits of "Friden and I waltzed
all night", etc.)
and barely any for the Marchant March.
Alas, management is making our culture extinct.
When they can block memories of such things, we are doomed.