Altair32 Emulator "Easter Egg" idea

[Jim Leonard]

Pete Turnbull wrote:
> Sounds (sorry) like a good idea.  The inspiration for HAL singing
> "Daisy" when he was lobotomised by Dave Bowman in "2001" was that Bell
> Labs had demonstrated an IBM 7094 "singing" "Daisy" in 1961.  Bell Labs
> were doing research into vocal-tract modelling; John Kelly had wired a
> speaker to one of the output bits and he and Carol Lochbaum[1]
> programmed the vocal, with Max Mathews, who was pioneering digital
> music, did the accompaniment.  The whole thing was programmed onto
> magtape, read back once complete and "played" through the speaker.  The
> recording they made was also once available on an album called "Music
> from Mathematics".

A great, clean source for this and other pioneering music synthesis experiments 
is on "The Historical CD of Digital Sound Synthesis", a CD+booklet set.
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