1 Nov
2008
1 Nov
'08
3:17 p.m.
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
My first encounter with digitized audio was via a C64. The computer had
an 8-bit parallel port built into it. With assembly code and an
analog-to-digital converter hooked into the port, the C64 do 8-bit
digitizing. I never did that, but did find an audio sample once that
someone else had done, some Van Halen song IIRC.
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David
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave
Phillips wrote:
Started my first book on typewriter, finished it on a C64, printed with
an NEC SpinWriter that sounded like a machine gun while printing at 50
characters per second.
What was your first computer ?
BBC B. 32k ram, later expanded with 100k floppy disk.
My loved one at the time wrote her >300 page degree
thesis on this, printed on a loaned daisywheel printer
using a driver written in BASIC. We used to set up
things to print a few tens of pages and go to see a
movie, hoping the rattling would have finished
without a paper jam when we came back. What was the
first music/sound software you used that really hooked you
into this making-music-with-computers fad ?
The sound chip on the same, again programmed in
BASIC. Also the parallel port which could be
made to shift out 8 bits at 1MHz, used as a
1-bit converter.