[COFF] Music!

Mike Markowski mike.ab3ap at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 02:40:02 AEST 2023


On 2/10/23 9:53 PM, steve jenkin wrote:
> In 1996, a Unix conference in Melbourne had a visit to the reconstructed first (valve) computer in Australia, CSIRAC.
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> There was a reconstructed audio of ’tunes’ played in 1951 at a conference.
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> I recall at the time being told that an AM radio had, at one time, been used to play tunes from the beast.
> They controlled square waves produced by ALU for different amplitudes on a single frequency to approximate AM.
This page has a bit of Beethoven's 5th using that technique on a pdp-8.  
What, no stereo??  :-)

   https://www.pdp8online.com/sound/sound.shtml



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