Altair32 Emulator "Easter Egg" idea

At 10:18 AM 3/4/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: I would guess that the answer to "What generates the AM tone?" might differ between systems. One answer lies in disassembling the code that makes the sound. Each program might have its own unique method. Is it mem-copy loops, on-chip or off-chip execution loops, I/O pokes, patterns in bus access? Another answer might come from measuring the intensity of the radiated interference at various parts of the machine. So far, it all sounds like something that could be emulated. I've always thought that emulators should come with much more familiar sound effects, like the sounds of keyboards, disk drive doors opening and closing, floppy steppers engaging, fans, tapes turning, etc. That's all part of the memory we're savoring and preserving, no? I'll stop at smell-o-vision - although I have nasal memories of particular computer parts, too, like blowtorching 74xx chips off scrap boards as a teen, or the particular melange of out-gassing or baking of plastics. - John