PDP8/e /l music compiler

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Fri Feb 19 10:55:42 1999

The problem, besides the fact that its on wide green-bar paper, is
that it was printed using a somewhat poor printer. It kinda looks
somewhat like a teletype 33 printout, with some character strikes
being at an angle, thus the top part of some characters is very faint,
etc.

-Lawrence LeMay

> Please consider scanning it (if OCR is a problem, do TIFF's and compress
> 'em) and make it available. We will gladly do it if you don't have
> time.
>
> Music programs using radiated RF are of special interest here; I wrote
> one which allows playing preprogrammed tunes as well as using the
> upper-row function keys as a keyboard (realtime and record)for a Wang
> 700 calculator (we'll make it available on the net at some point).
>
> The music programs for the CDC 160 series, IBM 1620, and others
> worked well with AM radios, some machines did better on FM (depends
> on shielding and clock speed). Some systems (eg. CDC 1604, upper and
> lower 3000, etc.) used the console speaker for better fidelity.
> And of course there were a slew (forgive the pun) of line-printer
> 'singing' programs for many machines.
>
> Michael Grigoni
> Cybertheque Museum
>
> Lawrence LeMay wrote:
> >
> > I have a listing (green bar) of the PDP 8/e and /l music compiler. Is
> > this something of value to someone, or has this already been archived
> > someplace?
> >
> > As far as I know, this may have been written here at the U of Minnesota.
> >
> > I assume the Pascal Compiler that was written here is already available
> > someplace (it was once distributed by Decus). I have the original
> > floppies that were submitted to decus and returned by decus.
> >
> > -Lawrence LeMay
>
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