Dick S. wrote: Yeah we had a few of those ASCII art and sound programs for the 1403. Funniest program I recall played songs using the 7094 tape shakers. If the drives couldn't read a tape they'd shake it back and forth rapidly about 20 times and then try again before skipping a block. We had 16 drives and you could hear them hum the songs all over the building. -- Presumably they didn't know the words... Bob
You have to remember that computing was just an infant then, and it hadn't learned to talk yet.
REgards, Les H On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:43 -0600, Robert Rabinoff wrote:
Dick S. wrote: Yeah we had a few of those ASCII art and sound programs for the 1403. Funniest program I recall played songs using the 7094 tape shakers. If the drives couldn't read a tape they'd shake it back and forth rapidly about 20 times and then try again before skipping a block. We had 16 drives and you could hear them hum the songs all over the building. -- Presumably they didn't know the words... Bob