Music Performances from dot matrix printers! This group is l ooking for some old printers
4 Aug
2000
4 Aug
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4:08 a.m.
Check out this site which I found through
slashdot.org. An
interesting use of those old beasts as musical instruments.
http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html
And I thought using printers for music went out with the old
line printers of the (50's? and ) 60's! :-)
Surely you jest! We were playing "Row-Row-Row Your Boat" on our
Dataproducts LPM300 well into the 1980s...
In fact, I have the "music" on the [dead] Prime at home, just
no line printer to play it on!
-dq
4 Aug
4 Aug
4:35 a.m.
New subject: Music Performances from dot matrix printers! This group is l ooking for some old printers
Check out this
site which I found through slashdot.org. An
interesting use of those old beasts as musical instruments.
http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html
And I thought using printers for music went out with the old
line printers of the (50's? and ) 60's! :-)
Surely you jest! We were playing "Row-Row-Row Your Boat" on our
Dataproducts LPM300 well into the 1980s...
In fact, I have the "music" on the [dead] Prime at home, just
no line printer to play it on! 
7:08 a.m.
New subject: Music Performances from dot matrix printers! This group is l ooking for some old printers
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
And I'm sure you've all heard the Commodore
Drive Music program that
plays music by banging the 1541 disk drive's heads around. It's a
remarkable rendition of "Daisy, Daisy" :-)
I was mezmerized by that when I first heard it back in 1987 or so. I
played it over and over and over again.
I was inspired to come up with a similar program on the Apple but all I
could manage to make the Disk ][ drive exude were burps and farts.
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New subject: Music Performances from dot matrix printers! This group is l ooking for some old printers
> And I'm sure you've all heard the
Commodore Drive Music program that
> plays music by banging the 1541 disk drive's heads around. It's a
> remarkable rendition of "Daisy, Daisy" :-)
I was mezmerized by that when I first heard it back in
1987 or so. I
played it over and over and over again.
I was inspired to come up with a similar program on the Apple but all I
could manage to make the Disk ][ drive exude were burps and farts.
The unfortunate thing is that it doesn't work very well on all Commodore
15x1 drives. On 1541Cs (white case) it is quieter, quieter still on 1571s,
virtually inaudible on 1541-IIs (little white case with external power
supply) and of course won't run at all on 1581s. ;-) So, to appreciate this
amazing hack, run it on a real brown 1541 for the highest, uh, fidelity.
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