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- From: sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers,comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: Dinosaur noises (was: Re: dinosaur horsepower)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.192050.315@craycos.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 19:20:50 GMT
- References: <Bs3oGt.6vp@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <Bs4ns4.D7v@world.std.com> <kitchel.712420361@moray>
- Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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- In article <kitchel.712420361@moray> kitchel@moray.dpsi.com (Sidney W. Kitchel) writes:
- >dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith) writes:
- >
- >>Along the same lines, I, for one, would certainly pay good money for a
- >>recording of dinosaur NOISES.
- >>The waltz-time 407 (kchunk-Pink kchunk-Pink glup kchunk-Pink kchunk-Pink glup)
- >
- > 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.
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- An FM radio tuned to ~105 (doesn't even have to be too close ;-) )
- will produce similar effects in the presence of an older (9.5ns) Cray X-MP ;-).
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- Steve
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