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He's kinda wrong, but not when you take into account RF modulation. The first "useful" application for the Altair was having it play music by making it run vari
by bitwize 3y ago
He's kinda wrong, but not when you take into account RF modulation. The first "useful" application for the Altair was having it play music by making it run various delay loops at different speeds that generated RF frequencies that could be picked up as tones on a nearby AM radio.
You could even faintly hear the CPU or the video chip working on old bitty boxes like the Commodore 64, VIC-20, or TI-99/4A because it would leak through to the audio portion of the RF signal to the television. VICE even has an option to emulate this for a more authentic feel of using an old Commodore machine.