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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On a slightly unrelated noted, I saw a story a few
months back about a group of enthusiasts</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that were restoring an early computer that was used
here in Australia in the late 40's or early</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>50's. They spoke to a guy that was interested in
e-music, and he was programming the computer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with punch tapes some very early programs. In fact,
some very early computer music. He</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>declared it was the first time in history that a
computer had been used to play back music.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've heard of people programming other things to
play tunes on,,, stepper motors etc?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the things engineers will do to amuse themselves
:)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>~ben</FONT></DIV>
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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">I
knew a software engineer who programmed a big relay array to play tunes - sort
of. Just clicking but what a rhythm box! You could recognize "Shave and a
haircut" and "Happy Birthday".<BR><BR>Boredom does strange things to people on
their lunch hour....<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>HA! I designed a 672 channel telephone SLIC system (analog
phone to T1). Each channel had 6 <BR>Aromat relays (3 for line, 3 for
remote testing). That's 4032 per rack. The average central <BR>office
had 64 racks or 258,048 relays. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Funny, I thought
these were usually used in outside plant enclosures, the 5 foot wide white
boxes, for doing pair gain out miles away from the CO instead of running
lots of copper. <BR><BR>-<BR><BR><FONT face="Century Schoolbook">You need
them at *both ends* :)<BR></FONT><BR><FONT
face="Century Schoolbook">SLC-96 and DMS-100 are typical pair-gain channel
banks.<BR></FONT><BR><FONT face="Century Schoolbook">Paul
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