[TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Mon Jul 13 02:09:56 AEST 2020


On 7/12/20 7:58 AM, Robert Clausecker wrote:

> That's how you know that the machine is stuck in an endless loop: if it
> was doing something useful, the values would change every iteration and
> you would get white noise again.

Computers are capable of generating PWM speech with a single bit output

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIejqWEV_8w

is an example on the Apple II

or multi-voice music using multiple bits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTaVffknxEY

the sound is not 'white noise' which implies totally random output
any loop in the code will produce a unique sound when it is running





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