Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > >> What was your first computer ? > > BBC B. 32k ram, later expanded with 100k floppy disk. > My loved one at the time wrote her >300 page degree > thesis on this, printed on a loaned daisywheel printer > using a driver written in BASIC. We used to set up > things to print a few tens of pages and go to see a > movie, hoping the rattling would have finished > without a paper jam when we came back. Started my first book on typewriter, finished it on a C64, printed with an NEC SpinWriter that sounded like a machine gun while printing at 50 characters per second. >> What was the first music/sound software you used that really hooked you >> into this making-music-with-computers fad ? > > The sound chip on the same, again programmed in > BASIC. Also the parallel port which could be > made to shift out 8 bits at 1MHz, used as a > 1-bit converter. My first encounter with digitized audio was via a C64. The computer had an 8-bit parallel port built into it. With assembly code and an analog-to-digital converter hooked into the port, the C64 do 8-bit digitizing. I never did that, but did find an audio sample once that someone else had done, some Van Halen song IIRC. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
