[sdiy] Extreme DIY?

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Paul 'n' all.

At 03:03 PM 8/14/03 +0100, Paul Maddox wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>  posted to me via another list ;-
>http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/
>
>check out 'rain drops keep falling on my head'
>
>no strictly synthdiy, but its making sounds and it deffinatly shouldn't be
>musical...

Good call. Much fun was had by all. Good to hear that circa 1970, people 
still had a lot of time on their hands. Of course the first thing I 
pondered was whether you could put MIDI on it and play it live. "Stop it 
brain. Naughty Brain. Here's a biscuit."

I don't know how common it was but the C64 heads here use to play music on 
their 1541 disk drives which was pretty funny. Well it was before they 
started breaking the belts in them. Well, we thought that was pretty funny 
too but given the cost of those things at the time I guess it was a bit of 
a hiding on the wallet. All for the sake of the show-off value.

But thanks for posting that. I, for one was absolutely fascinated.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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