[geeks] Best Vista story I've seen

[Lionel Peterson]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:53, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Quoth Sridhar Ayengar ...
> > Doug McLaren wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:18:07PM -0500, Charles Shannon 
> > > Hendrix wrote:
> > > 
> > > | > > Can you imagine the look someone would have given you 
> > > | > > if you asked them,
> > > | > > in 1986, if you could use their Cray to play Doom?
> > > 
> > > Not everything done on the big iron was serious :)
> > 
> > Indeed.  Many of the first games ran on big iron.  8-)
> 
> "My" first computer, an NCR 315, had wound core memory.  This put out a lot
> of RFI; so much so that we had a program that would broadcast Christmas
> carols to an AM radio sitting on one of the memory cabinets.  The commands
> in the programs were chosen for their RFI emissions, not their usefulness in
> context, so the program listing (in NEAT, a macro assembler) read like the
> result of some psychotic programmer's all-night drug-and-drink bender.
> 
> At the conclusion of the carol program, it ran off a Snoopy calendar on the
> line printer.  I appropriated that code for the end of the annual 1099
> report the last year I was there.

Reminds me of the "music" you could make with the TRS-80s by placing an
AM radio (Radio SHack Flavor radios seemed perfect for the application,
just the right size)...

One example:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=989&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=1733526

No relation to this: http://www.last.fm/music/TRS-80