Altair32 Emulator "Easter Egg" idea

Fri Mar 4 11:52:37 CST 2005

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 dvcorbin at optonline.net wrote:

> >> 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!

You have GOT to get more information on this.  We need more oral
histories!  Call your friends and try to get in touch with your old music
teacher and get us more details!

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