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The earliest iteration of this sort of thing that I know of is the Commodore 1541 being programmed to play Bicycle Built for Two. Are there earlier examples?
by reaperducer 4y ago
The earliest iteration of this sort of thing that I know of is the Commodore 1541 being programmed to play Bicycle Built for Two.
Are there earlier examples?
- 7402 4y agoIt's not exactly the same but in the early 1970s PDP-8 computers could play music by generating radio frequency interference in a manner that could be picked up by a nearby AM radio. The sound was not mechanically generated, but it had the same hacker spirit to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMsyvBxEcSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMsyvBxEcSc
- krallja 4y agoIn 1948, Alan Turing programmed a diagnostic loudspeaker (“the hooter”) in the Manchester Baby to play different tones: https://spectrum.ieee.org/alan-turing-how-his-universal-machine-became-a-musical-instrument https://spectrum.ieee.org/alan-turing-how-his-universal-mach...
- mdp2021 4y agoAged 11, around 1982, Richard David "Aphex Twin" James used a (per se mute) Sinclair ZX81 to have the (video) connected television produce sound through video signals; it is not clear if he also coded music using that trick. He would buy his first synth the following year.