> > Check out this site which I found through slashdot.org. An
> > interesting use of those old beasts as musical instruments.
> >
> > http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html
> >
> > And I thought using printers for music went out with the old
> > line printers of the (50's? and ) 60's! :-)
>
> Surely you jest! We were playing "Row-Row-Row Your Boat" on our
> Dataproducts LPM300 well into the 1980s...
>
> In fact, I have the "music" on the [dead] Prime at home, just
> no line printer to play it on!
And I'm sure you've all heard the Commodore Drive Music program that
plays music by banging the 1541 disk drive's heads around. It's a
remarkable rendition of "Daisy, Daisy" :-)
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Received on Fri Aug 04 2000 - 08:35:29 BST