On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For no reason beyond boredom I decided to pester this list with an OT > topic or two. So, without further delay: > > What was your first computer ? > > > And for extra points: > > What was the first music/sound software you used that really hooked you > into this making-music-with-computers fad ? In the 70s, somehow I got a hold of a Xerox Parc published paper on creating music manuscripts with the Alto. I think I called them and they sent me a copy of the (bounded) paper. I'd have to dig into my archives to see what exactly it said and the computer it used. The document had a blue cover and a picture of a musical keyboard on the front - if anyone has ever seen it. Then, while a music student at Indiana University (still in the mid-70s), I heard about Don Byrd's [1] music printing machine at the (now) Informatics department. I visited Don and he was happy to show me a rather large computer and how it worked. I was impressed, not knowing anything about computers. Unfortunately, Xenakis left before I attended I.U. I wasn't able to afford any of that hardware -- of course -- and so my first computer was an Atari 800. [1] http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/ -- Brad Fuller _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
