20 Jun
2008
20 Jun
'08
1:33 a.m.
A speaker and amp of a reagister.
The Elliott 803b had a speaker on the control panel (at least ours did),
specifically there so you could "listen" to the machine and "see" what
it
was doing, odd noises meant problems. It did not take long for some bright
spark to program a few tunes. It could be turned off. Once newer machines
were installed the Elliott was reduced to playing tunes on visitor days, bit
of a come down !
Mike
Web - www.soemtron.org
Email - mike at soemtron.org
Looking for a PDP-7 (some hope!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
To: <General at mail.mobygames.com>; "Discussion at mail.mobygames.com:On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:41 AM
Subject: [personal] Re: Earl(y|iest) recording of computer music
Sellam Ismail wrote:
This is very cool:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7458479.stm
Unfortunately, no mention of how the machine produced the sound...
--
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