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- From: cc_s525@kingston.ac.uk (Francis Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers,comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: Dinosaur noises (was: Re: dinosaur horsepower)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.165110.9564@kingston.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 16:51:10 GMT
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- In article <kitchel.712420361@moray> kitchel@moray.dpsi.com (Sidney W. Kitchel) writes:
- > Some fairly early computers came with speakers. One of these
- >was the CDC 1604. Most operators kept the volume way down, but I can
- >recall going into the machine room at Sunray DX Oil ca. 1965 and
- >hearing the science-fiction-esque music of the CDC beast.
-
- My first machine was an Elliott 903 with paper tape reader (of course)
- and built-in speaker. The manual billed it as "a desk-size computer"
- which I mis-read for "desktop" the first time; silly me, they really
- meant desk-size, and there was a memory expansion sitting next
- to it (a whopping 16K core store) which was just as big.
-
- Anyway when we were bored late at night we would load our favourite
- little number "flight of the bumblebee" from paper tape and listen
- to it performed flawlessly on the internal speaker. I've still got
- the tape somewhere, but sadly the actual hardware was scrapped 10
- years ago.
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