[sdiy] Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe jbv, from writings of Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:14:53PM +0200:
> > Imagine creating computer synthesized music that way, or worse yet,  
> > having to rely upon nightly batch processing with the punched cards.
> 
> I had a similar experience in the early 80's, when using
> Music V on a PDP11... used to start sound synthesis in
> the evening, and was able to hear the result the next morning...
  
That must have been quite an experience!

What type of PDP-11 was it, and what operating system was it running?
What type of hardware did you use with the PDP-11 to listen to the   
result?  It would be fun to use one of my PDP-11s for music synthesis
someday!  I think my 11/73 may still be working... the 11/44 needs its
CPU repaired, but first I need to repair my logic analyzer's power
supply and hack a set of probes to work with it.  Do you know if the
Music V software still exists anywhere?

Robert

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