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RE: First computers, was: team.net history

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Subject: RE: First computers, was: team.net history
From: Pete Holsberg <pjh@mccc.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:42:05 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Adamson, Ken wrote:

> You'll never guess from the list below that I'm a
> computer geek!  I learned to write Fortran on an IBM
> mainframe using punchcards when I was 11, and "played"
> the card sorter (you could make them play music by
> running stacks of cards punched a certain way).

You could play music on a radio by placing it close to an
S-100 bus computer and running a special BASIC program. I
can recall playing the theme from Star Wars at an expo at a
local mall.

Pete





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