Soh Kam YungInteresting article by the Computer History Museum on the history of computers generating sound (accidentally or by design). It closes with a description of simulating the Whirlwind computer in Python to play "Jingle Bells".
Ed SGood read @sohkamyung! The soundscapes of #retrocomputing:
"But one night at 4:00 in the morning, I got a phone call at home and it was the computer operator. And he said, ‘Margaret, something terrible has happened to your program.’ I said, ‘What happened?’ And he said, ‘It doesn’t sound like a seashore anymore.’ So I drove in and I figured it out and we put it back up and everybody said, ‘Oh, thank God it still works.’ But it was a kind of camaraderie between us and the computer operators."
"But one night at 4:00 in the morning, I got a phone call at home and it was the computer operator. And he said, ‘Margaret, something terrible has happened to your program.’ I said, ‘What happened?’ And he said, ‘It doesn’t sound like a seashore anymore.’ So I drove in and I figured it out and we put it back up and everybody said, ‘Oh, thank God it still works.’ But it was a kind of camaraderie between us and the computer operators."