There is also music for dot matrix printers.  One can even find MP3's of dot
matrix printers online.

-Adam

Bob Ammerman wrote:
>
> In about 1975 I used a Data General Supernova minicomputer (serial number
> 38) to generate sound using wavetable generation through a digital to analog
> converter. I was able to get a sample rate of about 60 KHz, but was limited
> to a single (arbitrary waveform) note at a time. My magnum opus was Also
> Sprach Zarasuthra (sp?), the theme from 2001, A Space Odyssey.
>
> Also, using a an AM radio for music goes back _way_ before the TRS-80 Model
> 1! I had a friend that wrote such a program for an IBM 1130 computer, around
> 1972 or so. It played Flight of the Bumblebee. Very impressive! You could
> put the radio on the other side of the room and still pick up the signal.
>
> Even before that, people were generating music using the _printer_ on an IBM
> 1401 computer (maybe mid 60's?). The printer used a chain that ran in a
> continuous loop and contained the characters on little slugs of metal type.
> As the correct character went by a print position, a solenoid would fire a
> little hammer and smash the chain into a ribbon to impress the character on
> the paper. By carefully deciding what characters to print in what positions,
> the frequency of the solenoid hits could be adjusted. I believe the most
> popular song using this technology was Anchors Aweigh.
>
> Bob Ammerman
> RAm Systems
> (contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
> software)
>
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