30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
2:30 p.m.
At 12:56 AM 3/30/2012, you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:25:40PM -0700, David
Griffith wrote:
Well, this isn't that old, but it's early enough
for me. We had a program for the TSS/8 system at
UWM that would play Beatles songs to an AM radio
by pulsing the blinkenlights on the front panel.
As I recall, I ran it under TSS/8 despite a
warning that the multiuser interupts would mess
it up, which it did, but not horribly so. I think
it was meant for OS/8 or something.
This was in the 70's.
-T
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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.