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IBM 1401 Mainframe, the Musical
by bucy at 4:25 pm EDT, Jun 29, 2007 |
When IBM chief maintenance engineer J�hann Gunnarsson started tinkering with the IBM 1401 Data Processing System, believed to have been the first computer to arrive in his native Iceland in 1964, he noticed an electromagnetic leak from the machine's memory caused a deep, cellolike hum to come from nearby AM radios. It was a production defect but, captivated, amateur musician Gunnarson and his colleagues soon learned how to reprogram the room-size business workhorse's innards to emit melodies that rank amongst the earliest in a long line of Scandinavian digital music.
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RE: IBM 1401 Mainframe, the Musical
by Acidus at 5:59 pm EDT, Jul 10, 2007 |
bucy wrote: When IBM chief maintenance engineer J�hann Gunnarsson started tinkering with the IBM 1401 Data Processing System, believed to have been the first computer to arrive in his native Iceland in 1964, he noticed an electromagnetic leak from the machine's memory caused a deep, cellolike hum to come from nearby AM radios. It was a production defect but, captivated, amateur musician Gunnarson and his colleagues soon learned how to reprogram the room-size business workhorse's innards to emit melodies that rank amongst the earliest in a long line of Scandinavian digital music.
Does Iceland really qualify as as Scandinavian? I mean The Ireland is closer to Scandinavia than Iceland is. |
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