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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