On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Eric Smith wrote:
Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
OT question: What was the first
"singing" computer peripheral ?
I suppose you mean a peripheral that wasn't originally intended for sound
production? The first public demonstrations of computers playing music were
in 1951, but the peripherals used were more or less intended to produce
sound.
Where would something like Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" (1950) fit in
to this?
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