New subject: Scanner plays music?

21 Dec 2000

On Dec 19, 23:18, Sellam Ismail wrote:
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  On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, John Foust wrote:

  Some .ram files merely reference an .rm file via
http://,
 such as a .ram that contains:

    http://streams2.vortex.com/rmf/daisy.rm

 which would allow you to just enter that URL directly,
 or save-as, and then you'd have the .rm file. 
 Sheer genius.  But it didn't work :( 
I used the audio hardware on one of my SGI machines to snarf the stream as
it played and uploaded it to
 http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/temp/daisy.wav  for you (about 3MB).

I was intrigued by the recording, and I knew I'd seen a reference somewhere
else, so I spent a while hunting for more information.  Interestingly, the
first reference I found was in the classiccmp archives, from two years ago!
 But the following may be of interest:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/INST/mar98/histquiz.html
    (a little background)
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/20001109_Musical_main…
    (several recent informative Usenet posts)
http://korova.com/kmr98/kmr8002.htm
    (near the bottom, explains that "Daisy" was useful because it contains
     all the notes in an octave)
http://www.mindspring.com/~dmaxey/ssshp/ss_btl1.htm
    (relevant published papers and archive tapes at BTL, including the one
     from which "Daisy" is taken)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

First computer singing