Altair32 Emulator "Easter Egg" idea

Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com
Fri Mar 4 12:21:59 CST 2005


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Vintage Computer Festival 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?

There was a similar program for Data General Nova systems. It was
called AMOK. Very punny.

I distinctly remember the paper tapes for the Nova AM radio music
programs in the library at work. Don't recall ever running them
though.



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