[geeks] early computer music

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2001.12.18 22:31 Greg A. Woods wrote:

> I know a guy who's dad did mainenance on early Univac mainframes (you
> know, the ones with vacuum tubes!) and he claims to have hung speakers
> on the bus wires and made them play recognisable tunes....
CSIRAC, the first computer "down under", was build with a speaker: 

http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/csirac/music/3.html#Music
    Hill was the first person to program the CSIR Mk1 to play a musical 
    melody. It was played publicly for the first public exhibition of 
    the computer on the 7th to 9th of August in 1951, at the inaugural
    Conference of Automatic Computing Machines in Sydney. 
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         Jochen

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