Really off topic now... was: Re: Face down,nine-edgefirst(whe rein all is revealed)

Peter Crowther Peter.Crowther at IT-IQ.com
Thu May 11 14:05:20 UTC 2000


> From: Dan Ingalls [mailto:Dan.Ingalls at disney.com]
> (now don't get me started on printer music ;-).

The system console on the 1900 series had a built-in speaker that clicked
whenever a particular instruction related to a context switch was executed.
We had a program that would play the Close Encounters alien theme on the
speaker... if you ran it at a sufficiently high priority (and irritated all
the users).

Does anyone know of earlier *dedicated* sound hardware than this on any
computer?  IIRC the 1900 series was c. 1965.

		- Peter





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