On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:36:49 -0700, Bill Schottstaedt wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:50 am, Frank Barknecht wrote: > [...] > > 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. 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
