music dec tapes? (paper)

I have tapes with labels 8-152a 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #1 8-152 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #2 8-152 Teddy Bear's Picnic Symbolic 8-152a Penny Lane Symbolic 8-152 Joy to the World Symbolic 8-152 Your Mother Should Know Symbolic 8-152a Penny Lane 0037-7720, 0170=7777 0171=7777, 0172=7750, 0173=6020 Binary 8-152 When I'm 64 0037=720, 0170=7776 0172-7750 8-162 MUSIC FOR THE PDP-8 Load Tunes: 440 Play Tunes: 400 "Start 8 Music" (hand-written, no printed label) On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 9:03 PM Kyle Owen via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 15:18 Adrian Stoness via cctalk < > cctalk at classiccmp.org > wrote: > >> anyone seen these music tapes before i grabed this trays for the oddnes > of >> the content of these tapes? also apears to have the software to play > them? >> >> > https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lot-of-15-digital-decus-Paper-Tapes-w-Case/27362862… >> >> > https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lot-of-8-digital-decus-Paper-Tapes-w-Case/273628539… >> would this be some weird synthy type thing? >> control points for the sound boaerd used for automation on some fancy > desk? >> or somthing els? >> > Vince has a listing for some version of DECUS 8-152 on his website ( > > http://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/pdp8/src/decus/8-152/decus-8-152-lst… > ). > I have reverse engineered it enough to have his version play a few songs. > However, it seems like there's a difference between the music tapes I have > and the listing he has. > > I don't know what hardware was required of this software, but I suspect it > to be a DAC responding on address 055. This seems to match with an AA01 > option. > > Did you end up buying these tapes? I have digitized the music tapes I > bought from the seller and will post them soon. It would be excellent if > the buyer of this lot would do the same. > > Musically, > > Kyle >