Re: ORNL ORACLE story

2019-12-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Do any recordings exist of the CDC machines playing "Anchors Aweigh"? The use of printers and tape drives impressed the heck out of me. The cleverness of the speaker on the CDC 1604 was noteworthy. --Chuck

Re: ORNL ORACLE story

2019-12-25 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Love those old sounds on an AM radio.  One day, I was working on a ham project in the CFRB radio engineering workshop in Toronto. It was just after Kilobaud magazine had published a program that would play Valda's theme (Somewhere My LOve) on an AM radio next to a Motorola MEK6800D2.  We had to

Re: ORNL ORACLE story

2019-12-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
https://computerhistory.org/blog/jingle-bits-auditory-maintenance-whirlwind-holiday-songs-the-dawn-of-computer-music/