[linux-audio-user] Re: you might already have a hardware synth in your office

[Joseph Zitt]

Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
> On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:50 am, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>here's someone making music with a dot matrix printer:
> 
> 
> When I was about 10 (around 1960), the place my father worked
> installed a barnful of IBM's; I got to tour the joint, and the
> thing I remember best was when one of the operators played
> a buzzy "Happy Birthday" on what I remember as a printer, though
> maybe it was the paper tape reader.

Back in 1982 or so, I did a piece in my office that employed about a 
dozen spacially separated line printers and beeping terminals. Due to 
lags in the computers and devices some very cool kinda minimalist 
phasings and staggerings happened.

The good thing about working the midnight shift was that I was able to 
get away with such stunts. The bad thing was that no one else ever heard it.