On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
> what the frap is it?
>
> peersonally if people post the item a short description of 25 words or
> less would be nice. Its a pain for me to crank up the winsock just to
> see what the silly thing is.
For the Winsock impaired:
" Ok all you ALTAIR Computer collectors, I bet you don't
have this! There can't be too many of these around. This is an Stereo
LP recorded in 1978. It is titled
BITS.AND.BYTES*(BACH, BINARY + BOOLEAN), COMPUTER MUSIC BY THREE
HARDWARE VOICES, EVEN-TEMPERED SCALE PLUS TRUE SCALES, TWENTY-FIVE
PARAMETERS PER NOTE FOR EACH VOICE.
The main hardware used was an ALTAIR 8800A Computer (INTEL 8080
chip). The software was an MITS
Package I Monitor, enhanced with JAMON (written by Jerry A. Ford,
MITS Program #117752). The
synthesizers consist of 3 identical voice circuits (pictured on the
front of the album cover).
Total playing time is 25 minutes. Music consists of two full length
numbers with the remainder of the music being
shorter selections using various voicings and tempos which were
created to debug subroutines and as exploratory
music. There are 15 selections total. Sounds like an early MOOG
synthesizer.
Album and record are in excellent condition. Album still has the
shrinkwrap on it (although has been opened).
Record has very little noise. Picture above is a spliced scan of the
back cover. It looks dirty and ripped due to
reflection from the shrinkwrap."
> < This is an incredible artifact.
>
> Then mine must be worth a bomb. then there are the two floppy roms
> (sheet disks with audio casette data on them).\
I have the issues of Interface Age with the floppy rom still in them :)
And yes, I'm sure you'd get at least lunch and gas money if you listed
those on ebay.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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