29 Mar
2012
29 Mar
'12
10:56 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:25:40PM -0700, David Griffith wrote:
The singing disk drive is a timeless concept.
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.
Regards,
Pontus.