On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah we had a few of those ASCII art and sound programs for the
The discussion reminds me of the line printer art from those days:
copies of the Mon Lisa, an Albert Einstein portrait, a pinup, and
others, and IBM 1403 chain printer music
(http://staging.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/).
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
1403. Funniest program I recall played songs using the 7094 tape
shakers. If the drives couldn't read a tape they'd shake it back and
forth rapidly about 20 times and then try again before skipping a block.
We had 16 drives and you could hear them hum the songs all over
the building.
Dick S.
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Dick Seabrook ~ Anne Arundel Community College
http://enterprise.aacc.edu/~rhs ~ Speed the Net!
