Altair32 Emulator "Easter Egg" idea

dvcorbin at optonline.net dvcorbin at optonline.net
Fri Mar 4 11:13:20 CST 2005


>> Back in '73..'75 an "enterprising soul" wrote a complete 
>> "symphony" for a PDP-8. Made use of the various shounds 
>> available on our system, primarily (IIRC), the 6 TU-56 Drives 
>> (12 tapes), System Console, 
>> Line> Printer, 4 ASR-33 and 2 DecWriters....
> 
> Ooh, do tell more.  What did it sound like?  Any recordings available?
> 
> -- 

Alas I know of no recordings, and to be honest I can not remember the tune itself. What I do remember [this was a school district computer]:

1) Having a heading from listening to Bill K, and Erich F "tuning" the program
2) Mr. "C" [music director] coming down and spending hours critiquing!



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