Altair32 Emulator "Easter Egg" idea

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Fri Mar 4 09:19:28 CST 2005


William Donzelli wrote:
>>That machine also had a very nice Calcomp plotter.  I miss plotters.
> 
> I thik one of the old HP plotters would "sing" a song using the motors,
> given the proper power up sequence.

There is someone (CRAZY) who is doing the same thing with dot-matrix printer 
head movement and printing, and the best thing is, it really sounds quite good. 
  Here's an example:  http://www.qotile.net/audio/printer2.mp3
(that example is featured in Jason Scott's upcoming BBS documentary, btw)
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