Neil Hopcroft

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Oh my pretty things, what sweet music they make
(contains: geekiness, disclaimers and someone who can’t tell the different between a Scanjet 4c and a Scanjet 4p)

Categories: Memories.

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cabbage

2006-01-08 at 23:29

Fantastic!

– and there are the walking DEC hard drives as well, but I don’t think thye played a tune.

“ZX Magazine” back in the 80s had a program which would play “The Yellow Rose of Texas” on a ZX80.

Ah, but the ZX80 had no sound, surely? But if you put it close to a radio, the modulated RFI from the processor was picked up[1]. I did run the program, and it did work. I didn’t spend much time composing on that.

My next(!) composition really should feature some top Comptometer action; the beautiful carry ripple of all-9s; the zero bell; Ahhhh!

[1]A more innocent era, obviously, before EMC got taken so seriously.

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aperrott

2006-01-09 at 06:49

Reminds me of an old C64 program that used the floppy drive for percussive effects whilst playing a tune. :-)

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Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

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