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<p>Thank you for this, I never knew how this worked. My experience
as an IBM 360 (USC-ECL) operator was brief and I never got into
the nuts and bolts.</p>
<p>I vaguely recall, as a teen, taking a tour of a DEC-10 shop in
about 1970 in Portland. Their printer played "Anchors Aweigh" and
I never knew how. But now I wonder - does this mean they had an
IBM 1403 connected to a DEC 10 somehow?<br>
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<i>Mary Ann Horton</i> (she/her/ma'am)
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/19/23 15:52, Bakul Shah wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Dec 19, 2023, at 1:31 PM, Paul Winalski <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:paul.winalski@gmail.com"><paul.winalski@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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Yes, the 1403 was very loud. The pitch of the noise varied with the
sequence of characters being printed. Some IBM hacker (yes, they
existed) came up with a deck of cards that, when printed, played
"Anchors Aweigh" on the 1403. IBM field service wasn't very keen on
this hack because it put a lot of wear-and-tear on the print train.
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I couldn't find "Anchors Aweigh" but I did find "La Marseillaise":
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe0MGO17K10">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe0MGO17K10</a>
[For the curious & easily distracted among us....]
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