16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
11:09 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:36:49 -0700, Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:50 am, Frank Barknecht
wrote:
[...]
Cool. I heard an Elliott 803 (enormous early 60s realtime machine) playing
tunes by modulating the tape puncher (I think) off one of its serial
lines. The serial cable was about the thickness of a mans arm and attached
with hefty bolts. Makes USB look elegant ;)
http://www.retrobeep.com/computers/elliott/elliottSpecification.htm
Its in the computer preservation society at Beltchly Park in the UK.
- Steve
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.