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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:27:24 GMT
- From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature ...
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- In article <telecom13.31.12@eecs.nwu.edu> chuckm@canada.hp.com (Chuck
- Munro) writes:
-
- > Well, as a matter of fact .....
-
- > When I was a customer of H-P (*many* years ago) I had a program on my
- > HP1000 that would rapidly move the brake solenoid up and down on the
- > paper tape reader. This would result in music (quite loud if you
- > placed an IBM punch card in the reader) which you could play from the
- > console keyboard. This was my first experience with a pre-MIDI
- > computer music system.
-
- I had that same program on an HP 2000 system. We had some nice
- classical pieces, the names of which I can no longer remember. This
- was, hmm, 1977 or thereabouts, during my college days as system
- administrator of the math dept's system.
-
-