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.
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Presumably they didn't know the words...
Bob