POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:26:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart  
From: Darren New
Date: 17 Nov 2009 14:20:32
Message: <4b02f780$1@news.povray.org>
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> I consider THAT hardcore.

Hardcore would be still remembering which instruction loops made which 
tones. :-)

Someone else did a program that played the opening of the Fifth Symphony by 
controlling the hammer timing on the line printer while it printed out a 
2-page ascii-art picture of beethoven.  That's was pretty cool. :-)

Or playing taps with a program that fit in the 16 registers of the machine 
after you'd told it to power down and the memory was no longer online. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
     Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
       Then he is not omnipotent.
     Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
       Then he is malevolent.


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