19 Feb
1999
19 Feb
'99
2:55 a.m.
The problem, besides the fact that its on wide green-bar paper, is
that it was printed using a somewhat poor printer. It kinda looks
somewhat like a teletype 33 printout, with some character strikes
being at an angle, thus the top part of some characters is very faint,
etc.
-Lawrence LeMay
Please consider scanning it (if OCR is a problem, do
TIFF's and compress
'em) and make it available. We will gladly do it if you don't have
time.
Music programs using radiated RF are of special interest here; I wrote
one which allows playing preprogrammed tunes as well as using the
upper-row function keys as a keyboard (realtime and record)for a Wang
700 calculator (we'll make it available on the net at some point).
The music programs for the CDC 160 series, IBM 1620, and others
worked well with AM radios, some machines did better on FM (depends
on shielding and clock speed). Some systems (eg. CDC 1604, upper and
lower 3000, etc.) used the console speaker for better fidelity.
And of course there were a slew (forgive the pun) of line-printer
'singing' programs for many machines.
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
Lawrence LeMay wrote:
I have a listing (green bar) of the PDP 8/e and /l music compiler. Is
this something of value to someone, or has this already been archived
someplace?
As far as I know, this may have been written here at the U of Minnesota.
I assume the Pascal Compiler that was written here is already available
someplace (it was once distributed by Decus). I have the original
floppies that were submitted to decus and returned by decus.
-Lawrence LeMay