Computer Museums

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Jul 16 17:44:59 1997

<> And while we are at it, put one of the music programs on the PDP where
<> you put an AM radio near it as the output device!
<
<I thought that was the Altair.
<It was Dompier's altair, at some meeting. The TX-0 also played music, but
<that was through a speaker. And I'm pretty sure the 11s had some sound
<capabilities besides ^G...

I'd been done with many machines in many ways. FYI: I have a PDP-11 board
that does multivoice sound (gigilo was the name for it). It works too.

I've hard it via d/a converters on an 11, via the line printer on a -10.

The altair thing was via radio, but also there were not less that a dozen
different sound and music boards for altairs/s100 systems. Some I might add
were very good. At least one used the pinte line (shows the internal state
of the 8080 processor interrupt enable flag).

Allison
Received on Wed Jul 16 1997 - 17:44:59 BST