music dec tapes? (paper)

[Bill Degnan]

I have tapes with labels

8-152a 8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #1
8-152   8 Music Coding Program Symbolic #2
8-152   Teddy Bear's Picnic Symbolic
8-152a Penny Lane Symbolic
8-152 Joy to the World Symbolic
8-152 Your Mother Should Know Symbolic

8-152a Penny Lane 0037-7720, 0170=7777
             0171=7777, 0172=7750,
             0173=6020 Binary

8-152  When I'm 64
            0037=720, 0170=7776
            0172-7750

8-162   MUSIC FOR THE PDP-8
             Load Tunes: 440
             Play Tunes: 400

"Start 8 Music"  (hand-written, no printed label)

On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 9:03 PM Kyle Owen via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 15:18 Adrian Stoness via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org
> wrote:
>
> > anyone seen these music tapes before i grabed  this trays for the oddnes
> of
> > the content of these tapes? also apears to have the software to play
> them?
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lot-of-15-digital-decus-Paper-Tapes-w-Case/273628629483?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lot-of-8-digital-decus-Paper-Tapes-w-Case/273628539210?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
> >
> > would this be some weird synthy type thing?
> > control points for the sound boaerd used for automation on some fancy
> desk?
> > or somthing els?
> >
>
> Vince has a listing for some version of DECUS 8-152 on his website (
>
> http://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/pdp8/src/decus/8-152/decus-8-152-lst.pdf
> ).
> I have reverse engineered it enough to have his version play a few songs.
> However, it seems like there's a difference between the music tapes I have
> and the listing he has.
>
> I don't know what hardware was required of this software, but I suspect it
> to be a DAC responding on address 055. This seems to match with an AA01
> option.
>
> Did you end up buying these tapes? I have digitized the music tapes I
> bought from the seller and will post them soon. It would be excellent if
> the buyer of this lot would do the same.
>
> Musically,
>
> Kyle
>
> >
>