[sdiy] Re: WAY OT humour - New synth DIY site ?

[Ben]

Re: WAY OT humour - New synth DIY site ?On a slightly unrelated noted, I saw a story a few months back about a group of enthusiasts
that were restoring an early computer that was used here in Australia in the late 40's or early
50's. They spoke to a guy that was interested in e-music, and he was programming the computer
with punch tapes some very early programs. In fact, some very early computer music. He
declared it was the first time in history that a computer had been used to play back music.
I've heard of people programming other things to play tunes on,,, stepper motors etc?
the things engineers will do to amuse themselves :)

~ben


  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".

  Boredom does strange things to people on their lunch hour....



        HA! I designed a 672 channel telephone SLIC system (analog phone to T1). Each channel had 6 
        Aromat relays (3 for line, 3 for remote testing). That's 4032 per rack. The average central 
        office had 64 racks or 258,048 relays. 



      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. 

      -

      You need them at *both ends* :)

      SLC-96 and DMS-100 are typical pair-gain channel banks.

      Paul S.






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